Fawkin'Injun
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An excerpt that does not fully do justice to the piece…
That question haunts the most passionate issues of our time. For example, abortion: Some pro-life advocates go so far outside the system as to advocate violence against clinics and doctors who provide a legal procedure. For example, protecting molested children: Some mothers go so far as to kidnap their own children and live "on the run" rather than return them to abusive situations. At what point do you give up on the possibility of the law providing justice?
People who go outside the system usually do so in the belief that the system has become part of the problem. In other words, the system -- whether you are speaking of family courts, the Child Protective Services or some other bureaucracy -- is acting to perpetuate the injustice rather than to solve it.
This belief creates a Spider-Man (search) who looks at the family court system and perceives no chance of seeing the 2-year-old daughter from whom he has been estranged for close a year.
Most of those who agree that "the system" is severely broken do not sit on 150-foot cranes in the middle of London. To a large degree, Spider-Man's decision was determined by the issue he was confronting. For Chick, there was and is no possibility of compromise or of avoiding conflict.
Other rebels are luckier. They are able to withdraw from the system and provide for their own needs. Homeschooling parents remove their children from what they view as a hopeless educational system even though they are forced to continue paying for it in taxes. Those approaching retirement privately fund their own futures even though they are forced to pay into Social Security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103314,00.html
I kinda relate to the last paragraph!
That question haunts the most passionate issues of our time. For example, abortion: Some pro-life advocates go so far outside the system as to advocate violence against clinics and doctors who provide a legal procedure. For example, protecting molested children: Some mothers go so far as to kidnap their own children and live "on the run" rather than return them to abusive situations. At what point do you give up on the possibility of the law providing justice?
People who go outside the system usually do so in the belief that the system has become part of the problem. In other words, the system -- whether you are speaking of family courts, the Child Protective Services or some other bureaucracy -- is acting to perpetuate the injustice rather than to solve it.
This belief creates a Spider-Man (search) who looks at the family court system and perceives no chance of seeing the 2-year-old daughter from whom he has been estranged for close a year.
Most of those who agree that "the system" is severely broken do not sit on 150-foot cranes in the middle of London. To a large degree, Spider-Man's decision was determined by the issue he was confronting. For Chick, there was and is no possibility of compromise or of avoiding conflict.
Other rebels are luckier. They are able to withdraw from the system and provide for their own needs. Homeschooling parents remove their children from what they view as a hopeless educational system even though they are forced to continue paying for it in taxes. Those approaching retirement privately fund their own futures even though they are forced to pay into Social Security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103314,00.html
I kinda relate to the last paragraph!
