Don’t They Know it’s a Choice?
Why do girls in Colorado have eating disorders? Why do they broadcast them? Why do they think that’s the worst thing in the world? Don’t they know it’s a choice? Why do parents tell their kids what to believe? Why do parents teach their children about politics? Don’t they want them to think for themselves? Why do women let their husbands beat them? Why do they stay with him? Don’t they know it’s a choice? Why do kids do hard drugs? Why do they melt away their brains? Don’t they know it’s a choice? Why do girls think that they have such hard lives because they had a bad boyfriend? Why do they think the world owes them something? Don’t they know boyfriends are a choice? What happened to the idea of world peace? If the basis of all religions is morality then why have trillions of people been slaughtered in the name of “their God”? Isn’t killing a choice? If God is all powerful, all knowing, and all loving, then why does he allow these things to happen? Are people inherently evil? Are people inherently good? Does God give us this choice? Why are there Christmas movies but none on Ramadan? Why does the nation believe that the islamaphobia epidemic began on 9/11 when the Oklahoma City bombing was initially blamed on Muslims? Why do people protest a Muslim mosque in New York City when the Taliban never claimed to attack us on a religious vendetta? Don’t they know Muslims have a constitutional right to practice their religion of choice? Was it really the Taliban? If we live in a country of transparency then why was there no plane fragments recovered from the pentagon? If the state doesn’t have the right to kill, why have 27 innocent men been executed? Don’t they know it’s a choice? Why is Texas passing the handguns on college campuses law? Why are guns everywhere in Texas? Why do my friends have guns? Why is my best friend an armed guard? Don’t they know it’s a choice? Why do the French have the best healthcare in world, when the French Canadians don’t? Why does Obama think that sending troops to Libya to take down Kaddafi will make him different than George W.? Why does he insist on being different than him? Why are there child soldiers in Africa? Why does no one focus on the brainwashed white supremacist children in America? Don’t they know it’s their choice? Why do people fear other races? Why do the media portray Muslims as terrorists? Why is 85 percent of American prisons black? Why do people care if I date a mixed Korean? Why does my mom think business school will make me happy? Why does she think it will make me rich? Doesn’t she know it’s my choice? If everyone has good in them, then why was my friend kidnapped in India? Why did the Embassy do nothing to bring her home? Why didn’t she have a choice?
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