shake wrote:
thoreau wrote:
@shake
you are standing in a queue at the chippy waiting to order - you want cod and chips.
the person in front orders a pie and mushy peas
does the fact that they choose something different from you make you angry? should everyone only be able to order and eat the same as you? does their choice prevent your own?
Each to their own...like I have said before....I just find it deeply offensive attacking our culture like this, ie Church.
NO WONDER THE MAJORITY DONT LIKE THIS! LOOK AT FRANCE FOR EXAMPLE!
I don't understand what is attacking our culture. to be perfectly honest I am not entirely sure what our culture is as it has historically changed as societal norms have. Sometimes for the better imho and in someways for the worse.
I am not offended by someone wearing a burkha anymore than I am by someone going topless as soon as the sun comes out. Neither are my personal choice but others should have that freedom of choice. Marriage again should be a choice and a choice that everyone should be able to take based on their own beliefs and desires not just because they fit the right gender match.
I care far more about people going hungry, being unable to access heathcare, being cold and unable to support themselves far more than I care about whether or not the religious doctrine is being held in the esteem some feel it should be.
I care about humans and the quality of life they are able to achieve not about who they are fucking (within a consensual context) or who they are worshipping.
I feel we get so bogged down in attempting to preserve things that we perceive are being taken away that we forget that just as we deserve to be able to live our lives in the manner in which we prefer others do too. It is not an either/or situation we can have both. divide and conquer is perhaps the oldest trick in the book and yet we fall for it every time.