Anything Goes

Are we becoming too tolerant? I’m all for people living their lives and having fun. I’m not one to go around pointing fingers and calling names, I do think somebody should though! It’s what we call a necessary evil. It’s like civilization’s own system of checks and balances. While I’m a little more in the middle morally, I’m glad that there are people on the extreme edges of it. Without people screaming obscenities at good decent folks minding their own business where would we be in this world? It happens on both sides. Several countries have legalized incest citing that what happens in the bedroom is nobody else’s business. How can it be that an entire country becomes so morally corrupt that the whole society believes it’s ok to sleep with your children!!!! It’s just one more reason I hate the French. Generally I like the idea of your bedroom being none of my business; I don’t care if you use whips or special leather masks and baskets, I do however care if you are taking advantage of a position of authority or abusing a child. There is a reason that children born of incest are all screwed up, because it’s friggin wrong! No one should ever have to introduce their boyfriend/girlfriend to their uncle-dad or sister-mom! I have my own moral limits and while I may not agree with what some people do that doesn’t mean I believe it should be illegal, but there has to be limits on what we are willing to put up with as a society. Your society is judged as a whole by what it does or does not give its people or allow them to do. It sounds simple but you have to find the middle ground. We need to start bracketing in on a solution to the limits of our freedom, slavery, obviously not free enough; sleeping with your daughter, way too free. We go so far in one direction trying not to bruise any one person’s fragile little ego that we are willing to offend large groups of people to do so. I only believe in the right of the single or the few over the rights of the majority in basic human rights cases. It has to be that if the vast majority of a society agrees on something that the law shouldn’t punish them for it but bend toward it. Title 9 of the education amendments of 1972 is a great example of this, it was meant to prevent sex discrimination in athletics but what has happened in actuality is that it has caused the destruction of literally thousands of men’s sports teams. There have been several thousand men’s sport teams, including national champions, which have been disbanded because the school didn’t have as many female athletes and was forced by law to even the athletic numbers. We have become so tolerant that we are punishing success. You are not allowed to be better than the people next to you because everyone has to be equal. That’s JUNK! I know that there were sports that I would never have gotten a trophy for playing as a kid, that’s why I concentrated on what I was good at. Why should you get a trophy for sucking at football? At some point you have to tell these kids they should try something else! As a parent I don’t want to pay for my kid to spend years being told she’s great at something she’s no good at, I’d rather find her something she truly is good at and foster that ability. There is nothing wrong with realizing you are better than someone as long as you realize you are also worse than someone else.