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Originally Posted by MEAD
But the people with these complaints seem to be odler folk. I'm a young guy (20) going after a young girl (19) who may or may not be involved. It's dating, not marriage at this point of my life. To assume that everyone at my age is as commited as a married couple is foolish. People date to find that special person that they could be with for the rest of their lives. They don't date to settle on one person and block every other possible opportunity out. My intentoin was never to trick or pressure this girl into anything, but to merely be perhaps a better opportunity. I wasn't going to be sending her flowers or diamond earings. ...
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Sure there are levels of commitment, but if she's gone as far as to mention her boyfriend she's set the boundary.
Ask yourself, who are you trying to convince?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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