Reply #13: I think it's more fear-based [View All]

[supernova]

than anything.

Our society, our world is changing at a pace that some people find scary. At the same time it's becoming smaller. I can sit here in my house and read about some guy in Guangzhou (sp?) province who couldn't sell his car to provide for his family. And I care about him.

The minute anybody starts spounting the "gotta uphold standards" line, I immediately smell fear of the modern world.

Used to be if you didn't like a group of people for cultural or religious reasons, you could just live apart from them and never have to be confronted with them on a daily basis or even *why* you disliked them. You could go on your merry way with your limited POV. That's not true anymore with our new, improved, slightly smaller, internet and microwave connected world.

There are gays you say? And they want rights, too? There are victims of disease that need medicine but can't pay for it so we must find a way to provide it? And what's that about indigenious peoples? They want their land back that the King gave my family in 1712?

I mean where will it all end up? Next thing you know, we'll all know each other and we might actually have to care about each other and stuff. :crazy:

Oh cruel world! Oh, the humanity!

/scarcasm