"The West"

[elfiende]

I don't want to raise my kids in this society...

Comments

[feroxtheunclean]

then we should endeavour to change it...

in the words of nicholas' joker 'this town needs an enema' :)

[elfiende]

Unfortunately, I don't have what it takes to ask another man to lay down his beliefs, values and ethics, in exchange for mine.
But does that make me the better man...

[feroxtheunclean]

That's one way to look at it...

On the other hand if someone/everyone is acting the goat, ya can usually feel free to tell them it might be in their own best interests ta desist.

[elfiende]

Oh, I meant society on a larger north american sense. I don't want me kids growing up in such a place, with such influences.

[feroxtheunclean]

Understood...

I meant society as a whole may be considered to be 'acting the goat', so changing it can be viewed as telling them to stop being bad, rather than to change their view to match yours...

However the two ideas may be inextricably linked...

[elfiende]

Oh I see.
I'm not so sure if I feel I have the right to judge another's actions, regardless of how I feel about them, I have no authority (real or imagined) to make such decisions...yet neither do they.