I watched the news for the first time in months, today. I swear ignorance is bliss sometimes. The news has always been a source of 95% bad news and 5% tainted good news. I was drawn in by a story about a kid in college who committed suicide because he was continuously tormented by his peers about being gay. His roommate walked in on him kissing a man and posted something on Facebook which started an avalanche of abusive comments, taunts and shameless threats.
What's worse, he wrote a suicide status on his Facebook stating he was going to jump off a bridge...and nobody took it seriously.
I'm ashamed to be a part of evolution that has yet to accept people and things for what they are. Who am I to judge anyone else for anything, let alone their sexual preference? Who is anyone else to judge anyone else? And if you feel the need to be insecure about other people's decisions, by all means, judge, discuss, rationalize, preach....but in the privacy of your own head.
I understand that social networks are made to voice your opinions, connect with friends and network with people outside your immediate circle of acquaintances, it's when other people's privacy is being violated and bullies hide behind screens and keyboards, that something should be done. I don't mean that privacy settings need to be changed to coup everything up like its a top secret room in the pentagon. I mean people need to throw around some seeds to grow a better sense of respect, privacy and acceptance for one another.
Made me think of this:
ReplyDeleteIf a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing. And all because there is somebody in the boat. Yet if the boat were empty, he would not be shouting, and not angry. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you….
Who can free himself from achievement, and from fame, descend and be lost amid the masses of men? He will flow with nature, he will be unseen, he will go about like life itself with no name and no home. Simple is he, without distinction. To all appearances he is a fool. His steps leave no trace. He has no power. He achieves nothing, has no reputation. Since he judges no one, no one judges him. Such is the perfect man: He is an empty boat.
So agree with this post. My dad always told us, "Your rights end where someone else's begin." THAT is how you know if you have the right to say or do something to/for/against/etc. another human being. And we are all just BEING and DOING the best we can for the most part until some total prat goes and ruins it for us with his/her big mouth...
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