Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:24:07 11/24/00
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On November 23, 2000 at 15:29:52, Ratko V Tomic wrote:
>> I think that you sound deeply dissatisfied with some aspects
>> of post-war American life, and that you have used this thread
>> as a place to unload all of this.
>
>With five kids going through public schools and watching what they
>get fed in there, especially in social and "health" studies, and what
>gets skimped on in math and natural sciences (so nobody gets their
>self-esteam hurt), does make some folks unhappy. Seeing then this forum
>being gradually muscled into the same kind of PeeCee stalinist paradise
>by some self-styled college campus speech code enforcers did manage to
>trigger "unpleasant associations." I guess, it's like buying a car, then
>suddenly noticing the same model is everywhere.
My reasoning behind the defense of 'alternative lifestyles', as you label
them, is much much simpler than that. It is neither the product of PC
brainwashing, nor is it liberalness for the sake of liberalness. It is based on
the belief that everyone is entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Yes, it is an
obvious reference to the American constitution, but that right is not an
American one, but a universal one. IMO. You complain that everyone is being
taught the same garbage, but still wish to impose a single lifestyle as if it
suited all, and were the only valid one. I couldn't disagree more. You link
child abuse to these less conventional lifstyles as if the very
'alternativeness' were the source of the problems. I see nothing inherent in
these other approaches to a family life, that should lead to greater violence.
That sort of logic makes no sense whatsoever to me. "Yes, he beats his kid
everyday, but you have to understand, he is the step-parent." Right.
I tend to think that TLC (Tender Loving Care) is not the exclusive property
of families following the classic 'a mommy, a daddy, two point two kids, and a
dog' scenario.
Albert
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