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I have been reading the post about the school play that was banned and two things became very apparent.
People aren't as active anymore, they either are too scared to worry, to blind to worry, not concerned enough or flatly too busy trying to make a living.
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Or don't have the time to worry about every little thing.
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It's funny how people who fight for Guns, or Religious issues, and say the government is too big and has taken away freedoms, are usually the same people who speak out and demand government do something about the Howard Sterns, television, the arts, and so on. They don't want Big Brother telling them that they cannot own a gun and carry it anywhere they like (even if the majority in the community say they don't want guns there (i.e. San Francisco). Yet, they don't give a damn about the freedom of speech. Don't see them putting the same energy into saving Howard Stern or the school play, do you?
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That is such a HUGE, sweeping, innacurate generalization, that there is no way to respond other than to ignore it.
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We make it difficult because WE allow the minority voices to speak out and go against the wills of the majorities. What I find sad is whenever anyone says let the community decide and vote for what they want and if you don't like it move...... someone has to sue...... and who pays for the lawsuits against the government? TAXPAYERS. Wonder how much of our tax monies have to go to these fucked up lawsuits that work to overturn the voters voices?
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Really? Maybe in isolated incidents. But not in my community. Or most others, for that matter. Every once in awhile, some story will pop up - like this school play story - and get eveyone all riled up. It gets blown all out of proportion. They'll say things like 'this is ruining society' or whatever, but it's really not. A school play got cancelled in a small, conservative town of around 10,000 residents. Communities of this size are a bit more sensitive to school content than the one I live in, which is roughly 50 times it's size. If you don't like people being so sensitive, then maybe you should move to the big city - because, as Pan would say: we're all either too scared to worry, too blind to worry, not concerned enough or flatly too busy trying to make a living. No one cares about anything.
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