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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (72897)	1/23/2000 2:47:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I read about Rocker. The way I see it everyone can SAY anything they want. And society can choose to punish any behavior or speech it wants. Just as you or I choose what kind of speech WE wish to listen to, when we choose our periodicals newspapers, tv shows, friends, etc, and as we choose how to punish people we feel are outside the bounds of what we consider decent, and as we also choose which kinds of behavior we will condemn. Society is faddish in what it punishes. Today it's PC in the 50's you got punished for being too liberal or God help you being a pinko. Tomorrow it will be something else. It's not like any of these things are cast in stone- PC will vanish and become a footnote in history if it even becomes that. I don't like PC, but then I find it hard to balance the rights of the person who wishes to be non-pc (which is at heart anti-social) with society's need to punish people who step outside societal norms (because I think I am at heart anti-social, people may think this means I agree with Rocker, that is not what I mean here. What I do mean is that I have a hard time putting a value on societies need for conformity, because I FEEL have difficulty conforming. YET I intellectually know that the glue holding our society together is partly based on the pressure to conform). I personally think people should be able to say anything they want- although if they do this at WORK for example, their employer has every right to fire them. And, of course, if one is a public figure the news media have every right to make it into a circus. So I am conflicted on this. I think it is personally lame and stupid. I think there is a danger in making subjects taboo. But then again societies have always had taboos, so is PC very different? Geez, I don't know anymore. I am arguing with myself here. I realize that. And I think I will agree to disagree with myself.