"One can live peacefully enough in a dungeon, but such peace will hardly, of itself, ensure one’s happiness?"
This is a quote by Jean Jacques Rosseau. I am putting this quote in my essay, but I have been trying to understand what it means. I am relating it to gay marriage and how it is unfair for gays because they can't pursue happiness just like any other person. I am having a ton of trouble trying to write essays. help?
2006-12-03 05:16:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Actually that quote functions quite well. One could use the dungeon to mean a mixture of things, including being "in the closet" or in a heterosexual relationship to keep their homosexuality secret.
Although, being in the closet may be peaceful, it would be difficult to attain happiness unless you are allowed to "be yourself" in the publics eye as well.
That's where I would go with it. I think it would be more difficult to directly apply it to gay marriage, as opposed to gay relationships in general.
2006-12-03 05:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by Justin H 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Such peace is not happiness. It is complacency. Just putting up with what your environment is. Being happy in May-berry,Happy Days or Attaka, or what ever your prison may be. If you are Gay or Black or Jewish or Latino you are looked upon by society with certain prejudices. These can be prisons if you let them be. I find we make our own dungeons. But if we break free from them we can go to new levels and create a chance to visit the world and learn and become Happy with what we are. Thus breaking the chains of the environment we are in.
As to a Gay who can't marry he or she can go to a state where they can. The fact that they can't enjoy the same freedoms is their prison they live in . They can achieve a certain level of happiness but the constrictions must be broken in order to be equal and gain the same freedoms . This will lead to their feeling of peace and happiness. Peace does not exist if you must fight for equality.
2006-12-03 05:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The quote, to me. is saying that you can live in a dungon peacfully, but the fact that you live there won't give you happeniss. For your essay study, look up the certian laws that don't let homosexuals marry. adopt etc. then look up the reactions to both sides of the argument. Hope that helps.
2006-12-03 05:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by quileter 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Clearly one is misunderstanding the definition of marriage. Same sex relationships are possible. I don't see why marriage would be necessary. Perhaps if they simply made a new name for two people of the same sex of have financial similarity and union as though with marriage. Because that's all marriage is in the eye of the legal system. Financial bond of assets and responsibility. In the eye of the church it's something quite different, and I believe that's where the conflict lies. That and people's inacceptance to change.
2006-12-03 05:23:38 · answer #4 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GAY MARRIAGE!
There is NO SUCH THING as a BLACK AND WHITE RAINBOW!
A rainbow is defined as the prism effect created by water particles breaking light into the COLOR that comprises white light.
MARRIAGE is defined as a the UNION between ONE woman and ONE MAN.
GAY MARRIAGE does NOT exists.
Why not ask your NEXT question about UNICORNS... it would be just as valid.
2006-12-03 05:20:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋