Just because I am more lenient toward the downtrodden doesn't mean that I do not believe that there should not be respect in the world.
I am not sure how the double or triple negation comes out in that sentence.
But we don't have to worry about supporting or opposing the death penalty for those who follow the law, and for those who are raised to have RESPECT for themselves and for others.
I do believe in character education.
I always surprise you in these areas.
I still believe that every human being is a human being and deserves to be treated with dignity. So my bleeding heart ways have not abated.
Still, people who are at the bottom must be taught to have pride in who they are and care for what they have, even if it's very little.
No one needs to be walking around with baggy pants - and while they have their freedom, school buildings are not a democracy, and neither should the family home be one.
If kids are listening to music that degrades women and are calling them female dogs and gardening implements used for weeding - then who's letting them listen to that garbage?
How many parents drag their kids to church?
How many of them still have control of their homes and still rule the roost?
I do not believe this approach is of sole ownership of conservatives.
Grandma was hard core Democrat - and wouldn't think twice about smacking a smart alec in the chops, and wouldn't think twice about using belts, cords, brushes..you name it.
Well she mellowed out a little bit as I was growing up, but I did get a modified version.
I believe this laxity is responsible for some of the social problems.
We could go all day chatting about how kids are weaker than they were back in the day. How this soft parenting can cause them to not have any clear cut direction in life.
I agree with a lot of it.
But still - it doesn't solve all the problems of the world. It doesn't solve how unemployment is soaring while corporations are raking in record profits.
Because a scrappy kid who grows into a hard working adult will go out and try to work hard for a living and will find that over four or five times in his life he will have to change companies and careers...because his boss' boss can pay 10 cents on his dollar in Mexico or even pennies in China.
So yeah, strict morality and instilling respect is not foreign to us who prefer the needs of the people over the needs of the wealthy few.
But the problem is, even people willing to give it all they got still can't make it.
on December 7, 2010, 10:30 pm, in reply to "