All this drivel about there being no absolutes and no rights or wrongs... when the system itself is creates an absolute when it says there are none- and everything it puts forth is a system of rights and wrongs?
2007-09-30 00:45:30 · 12 answers · asked by baronbago 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I believe it could possibly be school. I'll tell you an example why. When I was a child and had a banana with a sticker on it I always put thr sticker on my forehead. Why? I don't know. but a couple of days ago my 8 year old had a banana with a sticker on it. I told her to put the sticker on her forehead like I and my many other classmates used to do. She told me no, that it was wrong. When I asked her where she got that idea she told me school. She said that would be making fun of Hindus. I'll be darned I never thought of that and I don't think any Hindu has either.
2007-09-30 00:59:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a product of evolution-think-like, - and is a back-handed attempt to have everyone "just get along"
After all the PC crowd says that Amercian culture may think (now) that it's wrong to kill (innocents) but that's just our current mold think. It hasn't always been that way, - and we have to leave the door open, for us to evolve in that direction in the future. (you can swap out the word 'kill' and replace it with, -race, gender, nationality, content expression (life-style) or whatever).
So they'll say that right & wrong is an antequated mode of religion-talk, and since they KNOW that there's is no God, and they are the closest thing to god in their own life, - then they get a lot of emotional satisfaction out of making up the rules as they go along.
2007-09-30 07:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by MK6 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's nice to run into somebody else who is wondering that too. I think most of us are thoroughly sick of it. But the public created this nonsense for themselves, and then the politicians began passing laws that reinforce it, and people are using it as yet one more excuse to file frivolous law suits over trivialities, so that over a period of time we've gone from comical to plain ridiculous.
Only way we might start making this whole nonsense go away - or at least keep it down to its present level, is to stop running to "Mommmeeee" (The Courts) or the A.C.L.U. like five year olds ....."Waaaaagh, Johnny said a bad word to me". "Waaaagh, Janey stuck her tongue out at me".
Human beings are supposed to get more mature, and wiser, as we move forward decade by decade, century by century, evolving in knowledge and understanding of our ourselves and one another. But certainly in this country we seem to have become over the last several decades at least, stupider and more pathetic and petty.
We're always talking these days about foreign terrorists bringing us down. Hah! I don't think we have to worry near as much about outsiders when we're doing such a great job all by ourselves.
2007-09-30 08:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by sharmel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very good Q.
This country has become WAY too touchy-feely...
Speech which does not insult others, actions which do not directly affront a group should not be denied.
I was listening to a coworker describe his hunting trip- cold, wet, lost his food to a quick wolf...when a woman passing by said that she was reporting us to HR as being rude and insulting to vegetarians.
I asked her if she ate nuts...
2007-09-30 12:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Politically correct" is all about special minority interests and placing those interests above the majority. If we obey this idea then we do so out of fear or self-imposed guilt and for no other reason. Reject it and the biased bigots of the world (the best examples are the dog-and-pony show of Sharpton/Jackson) will attempt to hoot you into submission. This is what the protests in Jena were all about.
2007-09-30 07:52:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely nothing is more politically incorrect than political
incorrectness itself. If we ever get tired enough of it to rebel
against it all hell will brake lose. I have no time for a person
who distorts the English language simply because he so
dislikes "whitey" that they don't want to sound like him. And
I'm supposed to be too stupid to spot a bigot! How politically
incorrect is that?
2007-09-30 08:41:20 · answer #6 · answered by wayne g 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The TV and the Media. Propaganda is a slow process it begins in school. So, when we send our kids to school we send them to get brainwashed.
2007-09-30 07:50:14 · answer #7 · answered by Don't Know 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes path, it is apathy that is dictating our thinking and like someone else said it will be our downfall!!
2007-09-30 08:32:26 · answer #8 · answered by PATRICIA MS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is sooo stupid it needs to be banned??
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2007-09-30 08:10:40 · answer #9 · answered by Mister2-15-2 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We're like a bunch sheep that just blindly follow along. It is going to be our downfall, believe me...
2007-09-30 07:49:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋