The Right to be Outraged

I’m standing on my right to be outraged today by a discussion that took place in a medium I shall not reveal for various reasons: in which the extent of the influence of misogynist, pedophile, slime on popular thought and morality was glaringly, painfully, sickeningly exposed.

What does one do in a discussion where one finds oneself hopelessly outnumbered – as in, being the ONLY person to have a problem with – the following concepts:

1. Japanese schoolgirls who sell their panties to vendors who then sell them to goddamned perverts have just found a clever and easy way to make money.

2. There’s nothing wrong with this, not with the practice, or the men who do it – its just their society.

3. Whatever the law says is legal is completely and totally moral.  Legality and morality are exactly equivalent, completely fluid from society to society, and there are no basic human values like compassion or a wish to promote the survival and well being of the human race that surpass the law in any country, no matter how that law came about.

4. Since in other countries it is legal to drag a woman out in the street and brutally murder her for talking to a male who isn’t a relative, that is perfectly moral in that country, even though people in that very country speak up about it as being cruel and horrible.

5. No matter how horrific the treatment of innocent children or the underclass in a particular country and society, we should just mind our own business and say nothing.  After all those are THEIR people and THEY can treat THEM however they like, it isn’t our business.

Leave it to the pedophiles and the pornographers who have seized control of the media to have successfully promoted the moral ideas that (for ironically enough all the above statements are based on a sort of morality):

1. Objecting to seeing a weak or innocent person be tortured and killed on the basis of some purported essential recognition of their humanity is JUST AS BAD as if you are a religious rightist peering into people’s bedrooms with a hidden camera and ordering them arrested for having happy joyful totally consensual and mutually orgasmic oral sex.  Because it’s a slippery slope, doncha know.  If you assert any morality in the world exists, ANY MORALITY AT ALL, even that of “killing children for no good reason is wrong”, you are on the dark road to violent repressive fundamentalism!  There is no room for a middle ground between establishing a recognition of the common good and violent repressive tyranny.

2. THOSE people are separate from US people.  What THOSE people do may be barbaric and incomprehensible, but minding our own business is a sacred human moral and so what THOSE people do to THEIR women and children (a tacit admission that women and children are property, not human) is their business.  There’s a right to privacy and agency and all, you know – for rich men only.  The massive outcry by women and children that they do not want to be beaten and murdered and raped doesn’t count – THOSE people (meaning only the adult men of that country) decided it is moral and legal to do so, and also that it is moral and legal for the women and children to have no voice in the matter, and so WE should just – leave them alone.  Otherwise we’d be FORCING OUR MORALITY ON THEM (”them” being only the men).  If THEY don’t like it why don’t they just leave?

3. Oh and of course any criticism of a behavior is the same as saying “I want to outlaw this and jail you for life because you have engaged in this behavior.”  Any criticism of a behavior in a foreign country is the same as saying “We must invade and bomb them until they behave the way we want them to.”  So when you say “porn degrades women” you are really saying “all men who have ever glanced at Playboy should be jailed for life!”  And when you say honor killings are wrong you are really saying “We must kill all Muslims!”

This is the pop morality culture of the young now, as brought to you by Heinlein, pornography, Girls Gone Wild, libertarianism, Ayn Rand, Thelemites, and rich pedophiles in positions of power anywhere.  They have presented a firm philosophical wall of mumbo-jumbo with which they have managed to convince many people that if they think grown men coercing little girls into having sex with them is reprehensible, it makes them a bad person for thinking so.  Legality is morality – so anything your lawyer can get you off for is okay and should not be criticized.  Anyone who says otherwise is the real bad person.

Welcome to hell.

I’m shaking and ill now.  I was brainwashed at a young age to believe being outraged was passe and a product of religious thought only and that being hard and cold and not letting any story, no matter how horrific, have any emotional impact on me was the right way to go.  That was how to be cool.  Innocence was defined being able to be outraged and horrified at something and innocence had to be destroyed, being the uncool thing it was.  The younger innocence could be taken, the better.

But no.  I demand the right to be outraged at the above concepts being considered the standard “modern” morality of our culture, and furthermore I demand the right to be outraged by these gross offenses against the human community without being labeled a fundamentalist religious prude (as I am indeed none of those things).  Screw the black and white either/or false dichotomy of choices we are presented with.  There is a middle ground between living like the people in that recently exposed LDS community and yawning with indifference at the rape of children.

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