The Crisis, No. 1

As you can tell by the date on this post, it is late.  I told you in person but just in case you forgot my internet was not working...aka the security software my dad had on my computer blocked your site.  I guess you have pornography or some other inappropriate stuff on it.  Anyways this story was pretty interesting because it talked about war and I love talking about war and fighting...because I am of the male gender and enjoy that kind of stuff.  It is amazing how much war actually interest the male human being.  I feel that this is mostly for the guns, action, and death.  This is off topic, so i will stop, the main point I feel Thomas Paine was trying to get across in The Crisis, No. 1 was the point that certain people get different treatment in situations and everyone should be judged and treated fairly.  It is seen in modern society that many superstars that go to jail, get out on parole a lot faster than the average human.  Even if they have to stay in jail they usually get good quality furniture and basically live out their lives making jail their home.  Another time could be before the civil war, when there was discrimination between whites and blacks.  Many times if one of the white race committed the same crime as that of one of the black race, the black would be punished and beaten and the white just given a warning.

It says in the book, "...why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other (Paine 136)."  This was a real eye opener to me because I didn't really think about how we still discriminate and judge others unfairly to this day.  The rest of the story was pretty boring to me, but I was stopped by this excerpt of a sentence and thought about it.  We try to eliminate any discrimination in the legal courts, but there always is the possibility for some.  No matter what judge is used, they all are human and able to favor one side more than the other.  As people started to realized this we adapted it and add the jury to the court system.  This helped a lot, but again there is always room for human error.

Basically, all Paine wanted was for people to be treated fairly, and for things to be handled in a rational way.  He wanted the country to be ruled by a monarchy and he hated European ideas.  These seem like they would be easy and ideas that are no big deal, but they were not taken lightly.  Back in the days of Paine, people were opposite of these ideas, and it was a difficult battle for Paine.  Besides wanted to better America in a way he thought was right, I feel like he was trying to pick a fight.  He always argued and to me, his ideas changed as the peoples did.  I think he was one of those peoples who just had to argue with someone about something to feel good about themselves.  Those people are kinda interesting to listen to for the first ten minuted and then they get annoying.  I feel like I wouldn't have liked Pain, but in the end he did change America.

Paine, Thomas. "The Crisis, No. 1." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 132-136. Print.