What a Bozo...

So as I was sitting down in the Ricks building to study for a Race and Ethnic Relations test and one of the well educated students here at Brigham Young University of Idaho was speaking to a girl who I later found out was his sister. The issue was the American border and the Mexicans crossing it. His solution, like many quick judging and slightly inhumane individuals beliefs, was to simply shoot them at the border and let brute force be our answer. He then proceeded to state that illegals could not and should not be baptized because its against the law, which the church tells everyone to abide by.

During this process he ended up criticizing his sisters friend who thought otherwise and the student stated that he believed he is a "douchebag." What was my initial reaction? I in return called him a douchebag in my head and proceeded to study further. Then I really thought about the matter more thoroughly. Was calling him a douchebag for calling someone else the same thing at all justified? It came to me that name calling and bad mouthing is simply a continual cycle of ignorance and egotism. Certainly he might be ignorant about the matter, yet that doesn't mean I have the right to get feisty about it all. Perhaps he was even correct in his opinion about the sisters friend. Yet taking such a viewpoint just isn't worth it.

Moral of the story: Quit the name calling and the viciousness and open your eyes to the beauty of loving the person no matter what they say or do. I have to admit that this is going to be one of the harder things for me to overcome, yet the long run tells me that it'll be worth it.

PS-The pictures are so you readers don't forget what I look like. ;)