sodiumfree000
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- Posted: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:35:10 +0000
Tolerance and acceptance are weird because, deep down, most people are bigots.
(Bigot = a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.)
Racism was the standard everyone lived by a, but now, for most of us, the thought of racism is absurd. It just isn't done and we have all sorts of good reasons as to why we aren't bigots.
It used to be that women were married and expected to have children at very young ages. This went on for millenia. Nowadays we find this practice disgusting. It fills us with contempt.
Way back when, most everyone was religious exactly in the way their environment practiced it. Nowadays we are supposed to be tolerant and accept differences.
Most cultures put women down as second class human beings. Nowadays we are equal.
The part that's strange about all of this is that people themselves haven't changed. We don't have different brains. We don't have different feelings. We're the same kinds of people as the ones in the past who fully believed in all the things we now hate. Most of us are only secure with what other people also believe.
Many decent people are fully capable of awful things. If you had been born in the past would you even be open to all the concepts we accept today? Would you be one of the rare people who were different? Would you be the same? Do you even know?
(Bigot = a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.)
Racism was the standard everyone lived by a, but now, for most of us, the thought of racism is absurd. It just isn't done and we have all sorts of good reasons as to why we aren't bigots.
It used to be that women were married and expected to have children at very young ages. This went on for millenia. Nowadays we find this practice disgusting. It fills us with contempt.
Way back when, most everyone was religious exactly in the way their environment practiced it. Nowadays we are supposed to be tolerant and accept differences.
Most cultures put women down as second class human beings. Nowadays we are equal.
The part that's strange about all of this is that people themselves haven't changed. We don't have different brains. We don't have different feelings. We're the same kinds of people as the ones in the past who fully believed in all the things we now hate. Most of us are only secure with what other people also believe.
Many decent people are fully capable of awful things. If you had been born in the past would you even be open to all the concepts we accept today? Would you be one of the rare people who were different? Would you be the same? Do you even know?
