Saturday 3 January 2015

Taboo

In times gone by there was a very strong sense of duty, chivalry and the forbidden. duty is still a highly spoken about quality that is aspired to by all those who wish to make great strides in life. Chivalry is a somewhat sullied characteristic but has been subsumed by the less chauvinistic attribute of empathy. However, it does appear that we have lost a sense of the forbidden. There just isn't the same aversion to taboo that there used to be. 

These days some people are finding it to easy to kill, rape and abuse others. There are people who are trying to advocate for the legitimising of paedophilia; or running around trying to make it harder to report and prosecute cases of rape. All of a sudden the needs of rape victims are being equated with the convenience of those accused of rape.

While a more tolerant and inclusive society is something we must continue to fight hard for, it is important that that doesn't allow apathy to dull our sense of wrong. For every right claimed there must be an obligatory duty to support it. 

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