What I think about the right to think.

I am in agreement with Spencer. The urgency about the right to think is nonexistent, because we don’t think about the right to think, which is ironic. There is no way to control a person’s thoughts. What flows in and out of their mind is controlled by them and only them. Even then, there are thoughts that don’t want to be thought. You see, our thoughts have a mind of their own. They are who we are. We think billions of things in a day. Ideas, questions, concerns, etc. constantly fill our minds. If we didn’t have these thoughts, we wouldn’t even be ourselves.

I love how Matt commented on how nowadays we are asked what our opinions are. Opinions are what we THINK about something. When you hear a statement, or an event, the mind automatically places it into the categories of either positive or negative. Everyone has a different opinion, because everyone has the right to think.

I truly believe that everyone has this right, therefore, I don’t share the same emotion for the trial with my classmates. In all honestly, I was not surprised that Cates was on trial for his thoughts. That’s because we still have this as a reality today. Today, we don’t use a court, but we still judge. When a thought enters someone’s mind, and that thought is spoken, or written, others judge it. They use their own right to think to decide if they agree with it, or if they don’t, and to what extreme they feel these. If they disagree, the following is probably going to be true: They’re going to try and eliminate the idea that they don’t agree with from their own lives. This is what happened in the John Scopes trial; in the book “Inherit the Wind.” Back then, people had the right to think: Bert had his ideas, the majority had theirs. Brady, Rachel, Hornbeck, and Drummond, all had ideas! They had the right to think, but they also had the right to judge. No matter if it’s today, or yesterday, we undoubtingly have the right to think and to judge, because they can’t be stopped… Or at least, that’s what I think.