Read it...Rousseau says leave the gays to their life..

One person that influences me the most on all great influential thinkers of the past is Jean-Jacques Rousseau...He's the man that influenced my political and social life. If U every want read any of his works and had to read one try his great book "Confessions of Jean-Jacques Roussueau".

On education: On Emile Rousseau has good warnings and points that need to be spread. Emile is the most important book about education after "Republic" by Plato. Which is what many people who vote 'cause they hate...'cause some one told them so....need to read.

"From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty. If there are laws for the age of maturity, there ought to be laws for infancy, teaching obedience to others: and as the reason of each man is not left to be the sole arbiter of his duties, government ought the less indiscriminately to abandon to the intelligence and prejudices of fathers the education of their children, as that education is of still greater importance to the State than to the fathers: for, according to the course of nature, the death of the father often deprives him of the final fruits of education; but his country sooner or later perceives its effects. Families dissolve but the State remains. (Rousseau 1755: 148-9)"

"Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. … We are born weak, we need strength; helpless we need aid; foolish we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. … I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. (Emile, Jean Jacques Rousseau)"

U see, this was a man who lived not to enjoy what he had, a great writer, a man who could have had it all, money, peace, but still picked fight with the church, with religion, with colonial era, with other philosophers who came before him, but still remained us important things in life. What's freedom? Is it the one we have that we can say what ever? Protest? Vote? or is it absolute freedom? What about the so-called "Others" todays GAYS? The religious right AKA the Republican Party has made it known where they stand. But what does Rousseau said about it?

"THE strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he
transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right
of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is
really laid down as a fundamental principle. But are we never to have an
explanation of this phrase? Force is a physical power, and I fail to see
what moral effect it can have. To yield to force is an act of necessity,
not of will -- at the most, an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a
duty? Rousseau.

R we all equal? Soooooooo equal that your morals/what U think is right does little to change the other standing next to you? Does the rule of majority is to rule only the majority....and the minority does not feel sh*t. U see, today's Republican Party needs wake up call. I can't say they will wake up......Religion is sh*t...it makes people think as they R different from each other.....although, nature says not so fast.