Rights and Freedoms versus Responsibilities and Fairness

Third and last official meeting of the Redeemer University College Students' Political Science Association went quite well, interim executive and constitution set for official club status next Fall 2007 and it is a nice tight dozen or less collective of individuals who are keen on knowing their stuff. The last topic of the meeting led towards this new political term Christianism or Christianacy, we looked at how the ideas of American Dominionism and European Christian Democracy could merge into a classically traditional Christianism and how this could effect politics of tomorrow.

My small contribution to its scrum was a key rule of mine on most things political, "Always remember to do unto to others as you would have them do unto you!", this I felt was a universal, catholic and principled ideal most believers of fundamental and basic truths would be quite evangelical with and were hardwired as orthodox fact to share with as many others as possible to lead us all towards a more reformed worldview on life here on earth. If one believes they have a right individually to do something, whether economically, socially, fiscally, morally or environmentally irresponsible, then should that person expect society to collectively have a responsibility to fix it or make it good if a bad mistake is made. If the exercising of rights by citizens inside our community without its twinned movement in a taking of responsibility for its actions isn't a bad thing, then why has no good come from such a cultural institution as it currently is at present, why do we still lack the operation of proper basic and fundamental freedom, fairness and equality in our community that those citizens who respect their rights and responsibilities already have today?

To do Justice, find that longlost Equality and lead us to our Utopian Just Society. I think John A. Macdonald, John G. Diefenbaker and Pierre E. Trudeau all tried doing this here in Canada, different strokes for these different folks, these Conservative, Progressive and Liberal Prime Ministers of Canada all had a sense of what a balance was ideally in theory and looked to make it happen in reality with practice. From all three, I have been able to follow a certain political equation: Rights and Freedoms plus Responsibilities and Fairness equals Justice and Equality - the kind that bring a brand new progressive democratic reformed outlook on our political end game - perhaps this will be key too in the politics of the future as well!