How can we stop the violence in our society? What can we do to repair our communities without given up the essential liberties that made this a great nation? And before you parrot others, I submit to you that guns are erroneously blamed for violence. I say that boldly because violence occurs without the presence of a firearm. Having a gun in your vicinity does not embody you with demonic murderous spirits. In communities with Central and South American, Southeast Asian and some African ethnicities, violence and crimes of passion are often done with edged weapons instead of firearms. What are you willing to do to protect your family from violence? What are you working in to make that a reality? Can we stop violence?
If you wear a fur coat, you run the risk of having a rabid PETA (People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals) advocate throw paint on you (a dumb move). If you keep a dog chained up and isolated in your backyard for an extended period you can be fined and jailed for animal cruelty. Both of these will evoke the ire of thousands of animal lovers. But if a person left a child alone in almost the same situation for an extended time in pursuit of their unfulfilled dreams, job fulfillment, travel or something else, few eyebrows are raised. I don’t think that the same compassion for human life doesn’t exist any more. When that child becomes like an unsocialized dog, a sociopath, and or a menace to society we are quick to blame everything under the sun for the problem except the lack of parenting. If it really takes a village to raise a child, we are in trouble. Most children don’t have a village, or at the least, a stable home.
We have time saving devices on just about everything we use today from wrist watches to appliances. What are we doing with all the time we are supposed to have saved? We aren’t spending it with others. Like the automated teller machines, we prefer machines to humans in more and more things. So much so, that the lack of interpersonal skills is a growing concern to employers but no one is talking about it at home. Even in this day in age, humans still need contact with others. Criminal predators and gangs have been using this need as an opportunity to exploit and recruit our children, the lonely and the confused. Pornography and deviant sexual behavior are also promulgated through this necessity for acceptance, and personal contact.
Children and the elderly have become the targets of everything wicked. Why because their innocence offends the very nature of the world today. What are you going to do about it?
If you wear a fur coat, you run the risk of having a rabid PETA (People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals) advocate throw paint on you (a dumb move). If you keep a dog chained up and isolated in your backyard for an extended period you can be fined and jailed for animal cruelty. Both of these will evoke the ire of thousands of animal lovers. But if a person left a child alone in almost the same situation for an extended time in pursuit of their unfulfilled dreams, job fulfillment, travel or something else, few eyebrows are raised. I don’t think that the same compassion for human life doesn’t exist any more. When that child becomes like an unsocialized dog, a sociopath, and or a menace to society we are quick to blame everything under the sun for the problem except the lack of parenting. If it really takes a village to raise a child, we are in trouble. Most children don’t have a village, or at the least, a stable home.
We have time saving devices on just about everything we use today from wrist watches to appliances. What are we doing with all the time we are supposed to have saved? We aren’t spending it with others. Like the automated teller machines, we prefer machines to humans in more and more things. So much so, that the lack of interpersonal skills is a growing concern to employers but no one is talking about it at home. Even in this day in age, humans still need contact with others. Criminal predators and gangs have been using this need as an opportunity to exploit and recruit our children, the lonely and the confused. Pornography and deviant sexual behavior are also promulgated through this necessity for acceptance, and personal contact.
Children and the elderly have become the targets of everything wicked. Why because their innocence offends the very nature of the world today. What are you going to do about it?
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