This right here is what I’ve been alluding to regarding there currently being no common good. That is, we as a society do not have a collective interest in stopping kids as young as eight years old seeing highly sexualized images or even violent, degrading pornography.
I likely should see how this whole thread is going, and exactly check out what things you’re speaking about specifically, but your post happened to be the first that my eyes first glanced upon and there seems to be a common theme in this day and age of absolutely no social contract, no common good.
I am asking you, in all seriousness, why I am not the slightest bit responsible in protecting children in this world when I can? Though I cannot love and care for other children the way I do for my own children, I have a moral obligation to consider the well being of children generally. We’ll see the outcome of future generations even if this American society continues to feel they have no obligation from preventing sexual abuse of children. And children seeing violence and pornography or other images of a sexualized nature is abusive and shapes their mind in maladaptive ways. That, and many start to mimic what they see, and take on a completely maladaptive view on sex and treatment of other human beings.
EDITED/ADDENDUM: Following rant is not to you specifically.
This post isn’t necessarily aimed at you, and neither is what I am saying here. So if anyone wants to chime in for general discussion, go ahead.
I have recently gotten this sense that there are many people in American society, certainly not all, who for some reason or other, wish to see harm done to other, including their children. I believe this goes for many media people actually, including porn people considering that, if I recall correctly, one Tube site, had an advertisement aimed at young people in which it was alluded that one can view more porn during a lockdown, home from school and work.
Even in some serious conversations, which I tend to avoid at social gatherings, but sometimes slip or get dragged into because people love them these days, my wife and I have observed that others seem to take a sort of pleasure in suggesting things that put others on edge or are of a coercive nature (eg, you must accept this; you have no choice). That is, people will ask if a certain potential spouse will be accepted into the family one will likely see as a bad addition to the family or an inappropriate fit; will ask one how they will respond if a child has precocious sex, does drugs, or simply turns out to be in a way not to their liking or expectations.
No, no… heaven forbid these days, someone suggests to another parent something embodying joyful visions, like:
“I see your son is good with his hands/numbers/science/words/spatial awareness. Maybe one day he will be a tradesman/engineer/doctor/lawyer/professor. May he have prosperity and achievement.”
“Your daughter is so sweet and pretty. Maybe she will make a great home and give you some great grandchildren.”
“I see you have such well-behaved, sweet kids. They are beautiful. Maybe one day they will meet a nice woman/man and make a beautiful family.”
“Hey Brick, you have spoken about how your dad was a negligent bum. May you love and guide your kids in the right direction. It’s your turn to sacrifice your time and energy.”
Instead many people have chosen to conspire in a sort of psychological coercion by supplying moral support to an aggressive movement that intends to propagandize and warp children and people minding their business.
And a sort of game is being played here too, in which people will say, “Don’t like it, don’t watch or attend,” only to then say to people after shielding children from it that they’re close-minded and that their children will not be “exposed”.
The term “exposed” is another kicker and there are two people in my life who frequently use it. They refer to my wife’s friendly, practicing Christian, tri-lingual, talented and intelligent cousin. They say she’s not “exposed” but then when I have asked them what she hasn’t been exposed to, they can’t answer with one damn thing that will lend to her life satisfaction or well-being, profession, future family, nothing. They give a vague line like “she might not be able to relate to others,” or “have a hard time fitting in,” when meanwhile I think just the opposite considering what a great person she is. I find myself saying the exact opposite “Why not befriend this woman?” But then my reason kicks in, I think of what I just discussed, and I know damn well what they mean by exposed: drugs, promiscuity, angry and angst-laden people, destructive subcultures, and sexualities that are completely alien to her psychological makeup.
Then there are those people who talk about all this goddamn freedom when they don’t want themselves or their children with such freedom. They’ll talk about free will, freedom of choice, freedom to do drugs, freedom for this, freedom for that, “turn it off”, while leaving all this misdirection and libertinism for others! That is, they’ll say “I have no problem with X” even though they’ll be damned if their children do X, or become X! In fact, many of them do their damnedest to have their kids never even think of or see X.
Much results are in for this collective lack of social good or obligation, horrible outcomes: out-of-wedlock births, increased abortion, decreasing marriage rates, increased mental illness and suicide, impaired pair bonding, low-investment parenting (lending to all the above), and all sorts of maladjustments we see today. Maybe we should all keep testing the waters until the next generation is simply a bunch of lizard-brained bums who can only think of their next high, sexual encounter, their troubled feelings, anger at a “society” (which really means normal people minding their business), and so on.
Again, I responded to you but it turned into a generalized rant, because this is how I see it these days: an aggression on ordinary people, especially those with children.
