Warning: Rant ahead. Apologies in advance.
I'm all for equality, although not at the price of, I won't use the word degeneration for several reasons (one ironic could be that there is nothing left to degenerate, it's all just a giant mush of something which we once called Europe), a certain "stability" and logic in society. It's the same thing as with "Muslims are a race now" concept. In trying to be open and liberal, you come up with laws, which force people to accept a certain view. The rights of homosexuals must be protected, for they are our fellow humans and what they do in the bedroom is no concern of mine, yet to consider banning the word mother and father and giving generic numerical names to family members. Well, I do argue the fact that a name defines a person, but expedience shouldn't be the guide when deciding human relations. I cannot fathom a time when I would not say "Dad, come here", or "Grandma, you must see this" and say "Parent 1.0, please change your location to coordinates X,Y" (Yes, I little overreaction and play on words, no need to use this as an argument against me).
One thing which the EU should definitely get its money fingers out of. The market is one thing, inter-human relations are another. Do you know, that I will no longer be able to physically punish my child if the new family law comes into effect in Slovenia (although, it does give more rights to homosexuals and gives them the right to adopt children; yet one plus does not erase the minus). Beating up children till they're blue should be a punishable offence, yet a slap here and there cannot harm anyone. It's a wonder we have survived for these several hundreds of thousands of years, from peasant to king, considering that we were punishing our children.
I say bring corporeal punishment back to school. Should teach those anarcholiberalists (not in an economical sense) that a place of education is sacred and that we are the blessed (used metaphorically, not in a religious manner) few, who have such access to wealth and prosperity and that it is thanks to education that we have it and we must preserve it. I can see it in my own generation (Anno mirabilis '89) that there is only a slight percentage, if even that, which have the mental capacity sharpened with education who could think for themselves and cooperate in a democracy. With the new generations it is even worse, with social bonds replaced with mobile phones and iPods. I have nothing against technological development, far from it, I keep saying that we are not having enough of it, yet when we were in primary school, we talk to each other when outside. Today, all isolated, all special. I am for individual rights, yet rights are not the same thing as obligations (both must exists or none can), or social relations. If not for anything else, you need to be kind to the kind lady which cleans up the toilets in the school. It doesn't smell and you're lucky not to be doing it.
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