mind your business

  At the core of things, people just want others to mind their own business. The difficulties arise in defining what that business is. Whenever you attempt to make your business someone else's, you risk that. It makes no difference what the business actually is, that the strangest part in all of this, it is simply the imposition. Reactions will vary from person to person. Some will react violently while others remain passive. It's my feeling that it is those things that touch the core values of the person that create the strongest reactions. Threaten that, and the defenses go up. It isn't difficult to understand really, no one wants to be told they are wrong. Beyond that, people don't want to be told what they were taught was wrong either. We call that, traditional values and customs. 

 At this moment the big business is transgenderism. Yes, it's a business, your business, not mine. No one one is disputing that there have always been people that experience these "feelings" described as being "misgendered" at birth. We have scientists attempting to explain all of that and developing "treatment" and "remedies." In reality those treatments and remedies are just an enabling. If you can declare something as normal, then there is no need to treat it, problem solved. And the thing is, it was never my problem, not my business, until you decided that it should be. Now that you have made it my business you are dissatisfied with my reaction to that. I'm dismissing it altogether. I'm declaring, it isn't normal. 

 That is just one glaring example of business gone wrong. Another is this notion that the wealthy people have some obligation to share their wealth with the poor people. Charity is their business and you don't have a say in that. It is their business! As far as taxes and fees go, they are paying exactly what the law compels them to pay. If they do not, they are subject to the same laws and punishment as you and I. They have to take care of business same as you. We are endowed with certain inalienable rights, one being the pursuit of happiness. Research has shown that money doesn't guarantee happiness. Trust the science on that. Happiness is something you have to create for yourself. You accomplish that by minding your own business. Happiness is to be pursued, actively sought after by practice. It is not dependent upon anyone else, or more money. 

  Generally speaking if you are putting your business out there; you are making it everyone's business. Isn't that why we created laws in the first place? The laws, codes and ordnances define the business of living in a society. It's why you can't drive 120 mph on the highway and why you can't walk naked down the street. It's public business. Minding your business involves ensuring it doesn't involve mine. The civil war centered around business. No where in the constitution or bill of rights, there were only twelve at that time, did it say slavery was illegal. States had declared it so, but not nationally. It's like marijuana, "legal" in some place "illegal" in others. So depending upon where you are in the country, you do need to mind your business. That's true with any number of things, what you can do in San Francisco is different than what you can do in Omaha. Business is handled differently in those places. 

 There are those that will say minding your own business involves remaining silent about others. That is true, until the others make it your business. Then you have every right to express your opinion on that business. Granted, you have an absolute right to present whatever business you wish for public debate. You do not have an absolute right to public acceptance of that business. The degree of offense defines the degree of punishment. It may vary from a simple rebuke, to a violent reaction. What is it that you have offended, exactly? Well, that brings us right back to the beginning. Just what is that business? The question being, does this business offend the public in general. The business of living within a society.