Imagine this...
You're in a world where there is no such thing as sexual orientation. Infact, there's no such thing as genders either. Nobody can tell if you're a boy or a girl and if you're straight or not. They just see you based upon your actions and how you interact with the world. Now say you did something nice for a stranger who you came across on the street. You saw them quarelling with another person and shortly afterwards, the other person walked away from them uttering rude remarks. Tears started running down their face and you truely felt sorry for them and wanted to do what you could to help. You decided to go up to them and give them a hug. Their face immediately lit up and they thanked you greatfully. This in itself is a very caring and compassionate thing to do for another human being.
Now picture yourself in today's society. You are a very traditional, very conservative Catholic. You see two men who appear to be having an argument. You stop and watch them for a couple of minutes out of curiostiy. Shortly afterwards, you see one of them get in a car and speed off yelling curses at the other. The one guy who is left behind falls to the ground with tears streaming down his face. You are curious and go over to him and ask him what the matter is. He said that he had just gotten into a major fight with his partner and that his partner never wanted to see him again. Immediately you start slowly backing away from him cos you realize what is really going on. The guy realizes what you are doing. "What's wrong?" he asks. "I can't talk to because you're a homo," you say. And you walk away from him. He looks back at you with the saddest eyes you have ever seen and you know that his heart is completely broken. But hey, it doesn't matter, right? He's just one of those queers and he deserves to be hurt.
Something seems terribly wrong about the second scenerio, doesn't it? Why is it that the world has to hate based upon something as insignificant as gender or sexual orientation or race? You'd think that the people of the world would be accepting and happy about the diversity and variety of different individuals there are here. But no, the sad truth is that people are scared of other people who are different or stand out in some way. Whether that be because of appearance, beliefs, sexuality, skin tone, disability or even just an eccentric personality, the world is scared of individuals. Now why that is, I don't understand. Why would somebody want to discriminate against somebody else just because of what they look like or what they believe in? Why would somebody want to hate somebody else just because they are different from them? This baffles and confuses me so much.
If only the world could just stop all the hate. We have innocent people fighting wars and sacrificing their lives all because of a conflict of beliefs. We have queer people falling victim to homophobic harrasment all because of a stupid, close-minded attitude. It seems pretty darm shallow, doesn't it? And you wanna know the main reasons behind this unnecissary brutality? It all stems from ignorance and fear of the unknown. It's all because people are too afraid to take a look at different cultures and lifestyles and see that there is actually nothing wrong with them. They think that because these people do things differently than they do so therefore they are bad and need to be punished for it. The whole reason behind most wars is simply the fact that one country or culture doesn't accept or understand the other's beliefs and values. If they were to just accept the fact that other countries have different ways of doing things than they do and that it doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with it, then we wouldn't have so many unnecissary deaths and so much carnage. The world would be a much happier and peaceful place...
ok wow a little off topic there but anyways here's the wolfbear...
*steps in* hi there this is wolf now and my thought is that the world is a mould we are all apart of it but some of us break out of it. To define the rest we are different and now a days sometimes...most of the time different is frowned uponnow then onto did that man deserve to be judged so quickly...no
well in the uber conservative mind...it would be yes and why the yes it's because the uber conservative would say....because look at them they disgust me they are different they are outgoing ...bold ....cunning and brave...not like me who well fold into this mould of a path that life has set for me that my parents have set for me....I won't be like you....
whoa stop there now....then there are the few the bold and the mighty that break this mighty mould
These are the people that truely define the human race....we are soon to see for the United states a man thats wonderful a Afraican american man to step up to become president of the united states.
now then I shall pass this back to the pie
Ok now, the pie has one last word...
Why sacrifice being who you truely are to fit into what society calls the "social norm"?
It is so much better to be yourself and be an individual rather than trying to conform to some made up standard.
