I want an official world declaration, that there will be no more christmases.
Let’s go back to the Yule time festivals, where we can all be cheery and celebrate without being dragged (with our credit cards) into this insane mixture of spending binges we can not afford, and some nutty story (“borrowed” from various other religions) about a woman who got pregnant without the baby batter…
I’d like to have my life back, during December, instead of being dragged through all of this.
One last thing…How bout we do a flip flop, and be kind and cheerful to everybody, every other day of the year, and use December 25th as the day we blow off steam, and show everybody what we really think of them?
Wouldn’t that give the world a much nicer complexion?…What a concept…
[This is a response to a post talking about how impractical it will be, to implement the overwhelmingly voter supported new law in California, to use GPS bracelets to monitor sex offenders for life.]
I don’t know how good California’s economy is, but when you’ve got massive patches of the country, where most people are living scared, paycheck to paycheck, wondering how they are going to pay for the next doctor visit, get new brakes installed in the car or buy groceries, you have to wonder just where the money is going to come from to pay for any of this insanity.
I know it is California and not “here”, but still. California law (particularly the really bad ones, like this) has a way of oozing into other states, and even the federal government.
Give it half a dozen years, and provided it has not fallen over dead from it’s own ineptness (or there are at least enough pig headed people, to keep forcing the issue ahead), other states will start adopting this behavior.
It is just another bad excuse, to commit a legalized theft. It forces money out of the public’s hands, as well as benefits, in order to “protect” the public from that guy who likes looking at “naughty” pictures of children (when nobody would have ever even known about his habit to begin with, had he not traded with the wrong person, etc).
With sex offender laws there is a lot of money which is pissed away, on people who are not even a danger to society. A true cash cow, for those who can position themselves to exploit it. Everyone else gets swindled.
Makes you wonder where this line of anti-intelligence will go.
Because keeping track of free “offenders” is so riddled with impracticality, they may eventually use this as an argument to just keep “offenders” detained (incarcerated, in a psych hospital, etc) for life in order to “save money”, or at least “simplify” things.
I’m concerned about what will happen, when this new class of lepers has become so massive that it burdens the public to a degree, where either they can not pay the bills, or are fed up with paying the bills.
I can see it now.
“Gosh darn it, Margret! Those “damned pedophiles” ruined everything again! The new tax hike means we cant afford x-mas gifts!”
Yet another contrived way, in which “we” hurt the children?
This selection from “In Self Defense: The Life and Times of An Atheist BoyLover…Memoirs and Ethos”, has been narrated by Rocco White. Please enjoy the listen, or read along if you like…or need to.
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It commonly makes me wonder…
…what good has been done by any thought structure, ethics model…compelled behavior or prohibition…
…when these things hurt people, as a side effect to their very existence and practice.
I mean, if the original goal was to help people and make life better…then where does attacking good people become a legitimate part of the plan? How can such behavior coexist, with a sound and productive procedure?
Of course, it is always claimed by the apologists…that laws are not made for everyone…the goal is to serve the largest majority…and hence, there will always be those “lesser” minority groups who will be forced to sacrifice for “the greater good”.
I guess, that is the way it has always been in civilizations of law…Somebody always gets crapped on…just because, enough of the population view them as “not useful enough”…or “contrary to progress”…
There is no practical reason for them to fail at discriminating the good cases from the bad…There is no practical reason for them to ruin lives, and pay the rather large sum of money to house us in prisons…just because we privately did something with somebody who also liked it.
There is no practical reason to view our sexual orientation as being bad, or useless…of which it is neither…Certainly no reason to see it as undesirable…
…unless, you hold many ill informed superstitions about who we are and what we do.
I would not call it a case of the masses being to lazy to make the effort…so much as I would call it a mass superstitious psychosis.
I understand the elements which go into making up this mess…but I am still in a state of dismay, that laws exist which are actively creating victims out of people undeserving of such…and people know this…yet it is so hard to get anybody to do anything about it.
What good is a law, that victimizes?
…It’s an oxymoron….a self confliction…As a question of ethics, it shoots itself in the foot…It is fork tongued…two faced…
…very, very irrationally stupid…
I set here today in front of my keyboard…absolutely amazed that the human species has not rendered itself extinct by now…and it would not shock me, if we all died out within the next hundred years or so…maybe less…we have nuclear bombs, after all…and idiots who would honestly consider pushing the little red buttons…
…for reasons, most of us rational people who enjoy thinking things through, valuing solid facts and embracing a rich life, can not comprehend at all.
Yet again…to meet the requirements of an incredibly stupid ideal…the worlds population must…”sacrifice”…
I suppose…killing everybody is one way to stop people from doing “undesirable” things…however insane that may be…
The thing which has me convinced that the human species continued existence is nothing but an incredible accident…is knowing the sorts of things that mass numbers of individuals will stand in front of you with a straight face, and express serious belief in…even get deeply offended and enraged should you question or call it ridiculous…yet it is, blatantly insane…
…and these exact same people should be intelligent and realistic enough to know this…yet, amazingly…they don’t accept that it is ludicrous…
I believe, if it came right down to it…you could sell the idea of mass suicide to the public at large…and many would line right up obediently…You just have to market the idea well.
People just don’t honestly think for themselves, anymore.
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