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Originally posted by mikemover
It's just more hypocrisy.
So many Americans pretend to love "freedom", and many may actually believe that they do, but they cringe when you speak of the responsibilities and realities that come with true freedom.
Freedom means more than just being able to choose whether you eat at McDonald's or Burger King....
It also means doing your own parenting....If you TRULY want freedom, then you don't demand that entertainment be filtered and spoon-fed to the rest of us just because you can't be bothered to monitor what your kids watch and listen to.
What if you don't have kids, but you're still offended by the likes of Howard Stern, or Janet Jackson's boob? ....Well, guess what....You're an adult, and you have a very easy and highly effective option at your disposal: Shut up and change the channel.
People REALLY need to grow up and realize what freedom and freedom of speech really mean, and deal with it.
Mike
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Wow Mike. So true. You are right, most people don't understand that freedom has reponsibilities. Paretnig etc..definately as well as voting-jury duty! Not just sacrifice of lives on foreigh soil. Part of freedom and all the choices it comes with is
actually making those choices (use the damn clicker will ya!)
Self-determination? Why do we need the gov. to make such peronal and individual decisions for us? Doesn't the gov have better uses or more important duties.
The "not me" attitude transcends here everywalk of life. We have seen many examples of it from the top down recently. Allthough it seems the further you get into more nature (less concrete) based communities the nicer the people are and overall more harmonious. But, I just don't see responsibility being "in" anytime soon; that's what we have all these lawyers and insurance companies for. Seems that kids also enjoy a game called
dodge ball - hmm? Dumb on down and numb on down, it's all good. Get your prooooozac here!
