Pink triangles and barbed wire

Elspode · 03-17-2006, 01:46 PM

I don't think he's equating the two cases...yet (I know, I know...you didn't ask me, you asked Rich). Still, with the current trends in society, it seems interesting that we are apparently creating a designated "whipping boy" to suit the moral themes which are being more and more propagated in our social structures these days.

Why can't we make murderers, thieves and child molesters the objects of our scorn and constant moral outrage, and leave people who just want to do each other in mutual peace and harmony alone?

Trilby · 03-17-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Why can't we make murderers, thieves and child molesters the objects of our scorn and constant moral outrage, and leave people who just want to do each other in mutual peace and harmony alone?

i am so there.

dude: I so didn't mean YOU. i was being orgasmic. Or, something..

wolf · 03-17-2006, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Why can't we make murderers, thieves and child molesters the objects of our scorn and constant moral outrage, and leave people who just want to do each other in mutual peace and harmony alone?

Because in current parlance, they are not responsible for their actions ... they are these things because of some defect or sadness in their upbringing. Personal responsibility, whether it be for good things or bad things, is a concept of the past. It's the rotary dial telephone of the new millenium.

Elspode · 03-17-2006, 01:59 PM

Don't get me started on Victim Mentality. Sheesh.

Trilby · 03-17-2006, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Don't get me started on Victim Mentality. Sheesh.

do your worst, els. Enlighten me.

Elspode · 03-17-2006, 02:11 PM

Simply this...at some point, we have to suck it up and take responsibility for our own actions, or we are doomed, both as individuals and as a society. I don't see much of that anymore. Anything that goes wrong in someone's life is almost always dismissed as the psychological/physical/emotional effects of someone else's actions, and that is a crippling disease in and of itself.

I'll leave it at that, lest I risk offending. I know people have hard lives. I've had one, too.

03-17-2006, 01:46 PM	#1
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I don't think he's equating the two cases...yet (I know, I know...you didn't ask me, you asked Rich). Still, with the current trends in society, it seems interesting that we are apparently creating a designated "whipping boy" to suit the moral themes which are being more and more propagated in our social structures these days. Why can't we make murderers, thieves and child molesters the objects of our scorn and constant moral outrage, and leave people who just want to do each other in mutual peace and harmony alone? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-17-2006, 01:59 PM	#4
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Don't get me started on Victim Mentality. Sheesh. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-17-2006, 02:11 PM	#6
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Simply this...at some point, we have to suck it up and take responsibility for our own actions, or we are doomed, both as individuals and as a society. I don't see much of that anymore. Anything that goes wrong in someone's life is almost always dismissed as the psychological/physical/emotional effects of someone else's actions, and that is a crippling disease in and of itself. I'll leave it at that, lest I risk offending. I know people have hard lives. I've had one, too. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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