Ok from what I've found out from my observation, "dead ends" in the society needs some kind of ejection. Game over. You can go no further. Don't waste resources staying there or meandering.
I have wondered about the special case of adultery. What kind of a life does an adulterer have after exposure, and possibly after rejection by their spouse? First of all, hardly any civilized society deems such persons with respect. So accept that respect is gone. Second, unless in this unjust world one is rich and able to live by and have people who want to associate more with their status - there is no status and association left. Of course in the same societies, artificial respiration breathes new life into such cases, but really, if the purpose of life is success and success equals happiness (divided by achievement, I'd say), then what sort of life there remains?
The society must massively bend and curb its natural instinct to accomodate one such person who the civilized people will, honestly, not like at heart. This is a huge cost to the society - to the game of life. The rules of game cannot change. They must not change. Eject!
Murderers, criminal misanthropes, pedophiles, adulterers - all of these people affectively reach a social dead-end. I understand that this observes justifies capital punishment in the best interest of the society and the offender.
P.S. The fornicator, if I am to use such a term so crudely, is a case where there is a way forward and an understandable forgiveness. Of course, an adulterer may also be "forgiven" by their partner, but I do not think natural human psychology allows for any real long-term forgiveness.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
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I was flipping channels when I saw Oprah interviewing a swinger couple on her show. These people are not ashamed of themselves and have built communities around them. Then a girl from the audience stood up and told everyone how she was aware of what was going on in her house when she was growing up and how the swinging lifestyle of her parents has emotionally hurt her and has affected her life. The swinger couple on stage who was up till this point smart-mouthing their way out of every objection was sort of stunned, they didn't say anything.
ReplyDeleteExactly. It needs a whole parallel system to sustain something that is unnatural to begin with. First you tolerate an alternative lifestyle. Then you assure every "normal" person curb their natural disapproving instinct. Then the legislature spends its time devising laws to protect the deviant. Then the society spends time debating for or against the issue. The whole natural system bends and breaks to "still love you".
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile people in Africa die because they have no food and the world's society is busy solving issues it created itwself to indulge its idle mental, physical, and financial resources.