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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (2858)	7/26/2003 6:00:22 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37570

the government meddles too much I'd say the matter you brought up is important. Perhaps CCFS's original point was that Canada isn't "horrible" compared to what can and has gone on in the past. No argument on that perspective. Yet, unless people understand the concepts involved, things can and will deteriorate again. The key word imho is tolerance. That word and concept perhaps needs to be jack hammered into the skulls of some of your politicians and media by the looks of things. I guess humor and sarcasm are the appropriate tools in this case. One has to be tolerant of the breadth and diversity of our cultural inheritance. This means being exposed a little to the negatives a well as positives of the differences amongst ourselves, even perhaps a little prejudice. I don't consider myself harmed by my experiences as a child from my protestant friends. If anything they helped me get rid of my stammer. Therefore I think it could be successfully argued that removing the words "Mother Mary" from a Beatles song is very indicative of intolerance to other human beings. Is this what we should be teaching our children? INTOLERANCE to other people, just because they do not fit into some unbelievably strict code of what is /is not acceptable conduct? Where is the MIEN KAMF rule book of how to write a song these days ??????? and are all the teenager pop bands in Canada following these rules to the letter. -g- Education needs to be stressed, not legislation. Passing a bunch of rules can be about the dumbest thing you can do in some circumstances. Sure, the rule makers can go home that day, all warm and fuzzy, saying they did their job. But did they really? Or did they in fact just screw up the human race a little bit more?? -ot- Yes I live in Britain, in Scotland these days. The nearest I got to Canada is the boarder with NH. Lots of happy memories from those times. I liked living in NH.