Society has taken a sad path to people being overly emotional towards everything. People individually need to step up and lead instead of follow the "norm" of wusses and whiners these days. I am not targeting anyone individually, but make sure to read this whole thing with an open mind.
One good example would be how some whiners at the ACLU think it's a good idea to make it so people cannot openly celebrate Christmas. The ACLU believes Christmas shouldn't be pushed on to people because it hurts the feelings of the people that do not celebrate. All I can say to the people with the hurt feelings is this: Grow up!
Many times throughout your life, people will say or do things that can "hurt your feelings". If society just cries and whines to people every time this happens, we will regress instead of progress.
The solution?
Yes, there is a solution to this issue. Only one person can truly make you happy with who you are, and that is yourself! Instead of complaining about how someone has said something that "offends" you, find it within yourself to know they are just a person and have faults, too. You cannot live your life in someone else's footsteps, you have to forge your own path! There is this thing called "free will". Instead of complaining about something on TV or the radio, or even a website, just change the channel or don't read the material. Or, if you look at it with an open mind, you may be able to have an intelligent discussion about it.
In the words of Michael Savage, "We need more Patton and less patent leather."
If you were afraid of offending some random noob then you wouldn't be able to say anything!
It's like you putting a christmas tree in your front yard and someone gets offended because they're atheist, or jewish, or pagan ,or some other religion!
i think that some people fuss about somthing small like skuuuuuuunk -bla bla- calld me a whining n00b!!!!
but some people arnt whining n00bs.
for instince. when i got bullyd (not cyberd bullyd) i would tell my mom that girls were calling me fat and creating rumors about me. then my mom would tell the pricibal the princibal would tell the teacher then the teacher would do nothing. i eventualy left the school after my face book got hackd and my mom got a restraining order put on her by the main bullys mom because she was “stalking her daughter” and my my mom sometimes went to the school to see how i was doing...
@Neon: Exactly. But, that brought up another point; Why do people always break out the damn decoration crap right after Thanksgiving? They can't wait to put up a giant inflatable fat guy? -.-
I'm a douchey atheist :/ And I also don't care if there are jesus or mary things in public I don't get why people complain about them. It's not forcing you to become a Christian. If it was extremely excessive and, like everywhere it might get a bit annoying, but it's only for a month or so.
Commander, I feel like I am a pioneer for starting this
Just kidding.
Well I made a point and tried to educate people by using Hull's statement and then a blog was made with similar point and now Skunk is claiming society is too sensitive.
It's still not "Trend" status, by the way.
It's just the most intellectual(aka the douchey atheist(aka me involved)) kids questioning the overlords.
So, we need to just forget what others think and be irresponsible jerks? I agree!
Not likely. People who call others juvenile names such as wusses and whiners are obviously just fools themselves. Let's just forget what everybody else thinks, be totally insensitive, and fight with somebody every time we don't agree with them, like men.
Yeah, my town had huge decorative lights that were turned on at Christmas, depicting mary, Jesus, the star, etc...
They aren't Christmas lights anymore, they're "festive lights" which depict nothing religious at all.
Whilst I'm an atheist, I still don't agree with the principle that a place should have to change its traditions because a small proportion of the population disagree.
And further more, that means that I could openly bash Religion. You can just use your "will power" to get away from my Profile, the chatroom I'm in, or the site! Oh, Happy Day!
Or will I be banned, told to shut up and that "this was taken out of context", and enjoy watching a bunch of hypocrites make a "point"?