Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2004/01

From: "Sue Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] veganism
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:39:02 -0500

Amen, Andy!
Sue
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From: "Andy Raibeck" <klari_1@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] veganism

> While arguably well-intended and idealistic, in practice such a philosophy
> means that you don't distinguish "right" from "wrong" (lest in doing so,
you be
> judgemental), which leads to excessive permissiveness, followed by moral
and
> societal decay. Consider what this has led to thus far:
>
> - That which passes for popular entertainment today: movies, TV, computer
games
> filled with explicit language, violence, and sex, targeted for our youth.
> (Think about why the PG-13 rating was created: so the moviemakers could
put as
> much of that stuff in as they can without getting the dreaded R rating.)
>
> - Women and little girls dressing in a manner that makes them
indistinguishable
> from prostitutes (which has to be impacting their business). I'd swear
that
> getting some of those pants to ride as low as they do requires that the
wearer
> have her genitalia surgically lowered.
>
> - Kids (and adults) mutilating their bodies with tattoos and all manner of
body
> piercings.
>
> - Misguided sensibilities where, for example, we go to great lengths to
protect
> criminals from punishment and provide children with access to pornography;
yet
> at the same time we are outraged (via the myth of constitutional
"separation of
> church and state") by the placement of a statue of the 10 Commandments in
a
> courthouse.
>
> For the sake of being "nonjudgemental", we are going to go the way of the
Roman
> Empire.
>
> Andy
>
> --- Robert Whiteside <rkw@-----.net> wrote:
> > Rein,
> > That was beautifully put. I wish that everyone could have a
nonjudgmental
> > perspective and view the world with more love that criticism.
> > Rob W.
>

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