What Bush Must Do

[Nym90]

Beef--

Did you (or if you are too young to have been politically cognizant then, would you have) made the same argument in the 1960's about civil rights? It's always been done that way, people in the past had no problem with it, so let's not rock the boat? What about interracial marriage, which was also illegal in many places until the 1960s? One could argue that this was changing the traditional definition of marriage that had existed for a long time, too.

Society progresses. People keep thinking of things that they never thought of before. That's why new products keep getting invented. Would you argue that we shouldn't use new technology, because since no one thought of it before, we shouldn't use it now? It was good enough in the old days, so let it be? No. That's not how society works. People always keep thinking of new things to do, new things to try, new concepts. Nothing is constant except change. That's not to say that change is always good, by any means. Change can be bad, for sure. However, it is wrong to take a biased view against change, one must debate the merits of the change itself.