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Posted by Morphia [65.101.206.134 - host-65-101-206-134.cust.qwest.net] on 12 April 2004 at 09.39.51 ZuluTime:
This is a rant I wrote a week or so back... been tweaking it, and decided to share:
*Warning* Blatant copyright infringement ahead.
I find it rather interesting the battles people pick with eachother.
I find it completely fucking hilarious the way morality finds itself on a sliding scale whenever easiest...
The way people perceive violence, for example, is completely warped. Columbine bad, brutally slaughtering thousands of Iraqis because of their leader, good.
If our leader or our god tells us to kill someone, its ok. As long as that someone isn't "one of us".
The KKK is evil because they kill people simply because they are black. The US army is good, because they kill people simply because they are Iraqi.
Our sense of what constitutes racism and bigotry is conveniently turned off when our sense of "patriotism" or religious ideologies come into play.
We hear parents groups protesting everything from abortion to action figures, Marilyn Manson to monopolies. They scream and yell that these things are "degrading the morality of the nation. We need to ban together to end war, poverty, hunger, violence, death, day time tv (I wish...)" And once the rally is over, go back to their cars and SUVs proudly emblazened with a "Nuke the Fuckers" bumper sticker.
Hypocrits, all of 'em.
Then there are the pacifists: The people who start clubs at school intending to end the war, end the cruelty to animals, end the mistreatment of human rights, then get into fist fights and verbal shit-flinging matches with the leaders of their fellow groups because they lack ideological purity, or cut their hair the wrong way...
Lets nuke the whales, save the t-shirts, floss daily, don't listen to Slipknot, kill the pagans, send money to "Focus on the family" so they can squander more tax payers money on frivilous litigation against Mr. Rodgers because he doesn't teach children about god, eat our veggietables, buy a Ford 'cause after all those asians are STILL out to get us, get rid of guns, kill the gooks and chinks and spicks, drink coors, shop at the gap, Jesus hates the jews so we should too, eliminate any rights which may lead people to unique thought, nation wide dress codes, metal detectors in preschools, no shoes no shirt no service, business hours are between 9 am and 5 pm eastern standard time because people dont actually live after sun down, bring back the good old days when the niggers knew there place, homosexuals will burn in hell but the ones who sent 'em there get off with a slap on the wrists, Eat at joes, Starbucks: Its everywhere you want to be, a diamond is forever, so is human ignorance, this is a work of fiction, any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental, unless you like it, then I am going to suck up, latch on, leech off, and otherwise use it to my advantage, abuse my rights, abuse myself, abuse eachother, if sweet dreams really are made of these, and no one disagrees, then it really is a small world after all.