Call them what you like, Broken Families are still a TRAGEDY!
Yes, liberals value family, but not enough to recognize that a broken family is a tragedy. Divorce is actually worse than death as far as the grieving process goes- especially when there are children, custody battles, parental support, and alimony involved. And homosexuals raising children? That is tragic, not something to be celebrated.
Maybe if we'd *recognize* that a broken family is a tragedy we would be more willing to say, pay taxes for WIC so that the single mother working a minimum wage job actually has the ability to choose life. Maybe we'd have more men willing to stick around and help raise the children they cause because the condom broke while they were stupidly using sex only for recreation. Maybe, just maybe, we'd be raising men instead of a generation of cowardly wimps who choose homosexuality and suicide over real life.
Suffering and tragedy is valuable- but only if we recognize that it exists.
Maybe if we'd *recognize* that a broken family is a tragedy we would be more willing to say, pay taxes for WIC so that the single mother working a minimum wage job actually has the ability to choose life. Maybe we'd have more men willing to stick around and help raise the children they cause because the condom broke while they were stupidly using sex only for recreation. Maybe, just maybe, we'd be raising men instead of a generation of cowardly wimps who choose homosexuality and suicide over real life.
Suffering and tragedy is valuable- but only if we recognize that it exists.
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You should try to qualify statements like this with words like "In some/many/most cases.."
You never allow for exception in any opinions you express. Are you aware of that trait?
There are no exceptions, because it is common to all humanity.
I don't believe in exceptions to universal morality. Those who do, have done great damage to themselves, their families, and the wider community.
I said "Divorce is actually worse than death as far as the grieving process goes", as in, for the people who have to suffer from a broken home, it takes them longer to grieve a divorce and come to terms with it, than a broken home due to death. The extra complexity involved is the reason why- at least if you are a widow, you know your spouse did not *choose* to leave. If you are an orphan due to death, at least you know your parents didn't *choose* to be out of your life. With death there are no custody battles, no spousal support, no breaking up of the household possessions.
Yes, a funeral and funeral planning is stressful- yes it takes 6 months to several years to convince our overly aggressive advertisers that somebody is dead.
But you aren't dealing with them still demanding access to your home and kids every day. And few dead husbands come back to do a murder suicide on their wives in this life- many divorced men do.
There is such a thing as an amicable divorce. Sometimes there are just irreconcilable differences that make divorce the better option. Not all divorces become adversarial.
Amicable isn't enough. The only real solution is to be adults, work out your differences, and stay together if at all possible.
The only way I see divorce as even a reasonable situation is in the case of physical abuse. And in that situation, as hundreds of cases in the last decade have shown- divorce can and does turn deadly.
I agree. But there are situations (such as abuse) where staying together is not possible and where the children would be better off with the divorce.
Ah, no. Divorce is the appropriate solution. Your being so extreme, what causes that?
This isn't a big problem where I live. I think you have experienced a lot atypical situations and have somehow come to believe that they are typical. They're not.
But I do find it interesting where your vaulted tolerance finds its limits. So much for Live and Let Live.
That doesn't justify the number of and types of guns out there. There's nothing that can be done about it because the gun fanatics are in control of this issue now and always will be.
The problem isn't that there are too many guns out there- to operate a gun, you need ammo, and banning guns alone won't do it now that we can just download a design, print it, add a nail, and you have a gun.
But Ammo, and the chemicals needed to make it is a different story.
Plus, out of the last 5 mass shootings, in every single one the shooter either had previous arrests or years of therapy. Looking for bail payments and therapy copayments is a good way to screen out people who shouldn't own guns or be sold ammo.
It will be a long time before we can 3D print gunpowder.
You seem to have an incredibly narrow and superficial set of experiences, Mr. Seeber. You also seem not to be able to understand human beings very well. You have claimed elsewhere that you have some emotional/mental issues of your own.
Um...maybe you should let the sane, balanced people work this stuff out. Frankly, I don't think you're fit to be a parent, especially a parent of a child with special needs.
Your bizarre claims that rape has nothing to do with consent (are the police in your area aware of your odd views on women's right to consent when it comes to sex...?), plus your absolutist, lunatic notions of How Things Would Be If I Ran The World, and now your gun fetish (you do realize your little app would preclude YOU from owning a gun, right...right?) are deeply disturbing.
Get help. Seriously -- get yourself to a mental health professional and get serious help. Maybe CPS should read your blog, too. There's something wrong with you. I wouldn't be surprised if you were the next lunatic with a gun who goes around killing women for tempting you with their slutty capri pants and t shirts or insisting that they have sex with you because you "rightly" intend for them to get pregnant as the Lord has decreed, or whatever nuttiness you're up to lately.
A huge part of the reason I have these opinions is in the URL of this blog- Outside the Autistic Asylum.
I don't know that you get the reference. If you can, pick up a copy of Douglas Adams' So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. And look up the beliefs of the character known as Wonko The Sane.
In other words, there are exactly TWO ways to deal with mental illness from the inside. Either believe that you are insane, or believe that you are sane and the rest of the world is insane.
Based on the effects of things like divorce, I am absolutely ready to declare the world is insane.
And yes, there is a reason why I haven't purchased ammo in the ten years since I got my diagnosis, and the only gun I have in the house is an under 100 FPS spring style pellet gun (wait, no, that's not correct- my son now owns a pump style Nerf single-shot sniper's rifle- in bright orange. We don't let him take it out when the daycare kids are there, and it is normally stored higher than he can reach in the garage). Neither of which, of course, could even harm a squirrel.
I am convinced your type is NEITHER sane nor balanced by any stretch of the imagination. Neurotypicals have been bigoted ever since writing the "Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane" back in 1850. It has always been far more political than scientific, especially since the DSM III-TR, and is an attempt to suppress truth.
The police in my area have people they actually have to worry about- like those who get divorced.
Ted,
That's just crazy talk. Using a condom does not make a man a rapist. I don't know where you come up with these things.
PatchworkFaith,
I don't agree with Ted about just about anything. But I would never say to him, or anyone else for that matter, the cruel things that you said yesterday. I thought long and hard about whether to ignore you and just let you go away or telling you what I think. Ted had the option of deleting your vile comments but he took the high ground and provided you with a very honest response. You should think about apologizing or, at the very least, staying off this site.
Patchwork, I knew the VICTIMS personally- through my work for the Knights at a battered women's shelter.
They should never have returned home. And we need stronger laws for the commitment of even the most powerful politicians who become abusers (in one case, it was a well respected business man who had everybody fooled- right up until he dumped his family in the bay, hopefully dead before they hit the water, then killed himself).
Any man who would hit a woman in anger, is far too chaotically evil to be allowed freedom.
True. But most times the woman defends the abuser just making the problem worse.
I would certainly be for, as a halfway step, any filing of divorce papers for the crime of abuse to require a 72 hour suicide watch on the spouse who didn't file papers.
Can't do that without reasonable cause.