I FN Hate… Conservatism
My accurate depiction of a conservative man (or woman).
Right-winged politics get right up my nose, but conservatism as a social ideology is far worse and it propels me into a frothing fit of anger.
Conservatives are supporters of traditional values, where video games are new and evil, art is a load of pretentious dribble, sex is a sin and religion trumps science because it teaches us morality.
Of course we know that video games are just another form of entertainment, art takes on many glorious forms, sex is enjoyable and religion is a fairytale.
Firstly, let me tackle religion; it teaches us morals, it tells us what is right and wrong and a dirty liberal atheist could never be a good person. After all, those homosexual-hating christians from the deep south are lovely people and we can never be as good as them because we all need to be told by a superior being how to be good, instead of simply being good without cause.
There is a big difference between an atheist and a christian, one of them has to be moral through fear of damnation, one decides to be moral because they want to be a good person.
Video games, films, television and the internet doesn’t promote crime, or condition people to be evil. The people who are evil and happen to make use of said media were probably mentally unstable from the start. Crime didn’t just appear when the television was invented, it has always been around. Attributing crime to a particular new invention, just because you are scared of new things, is moronic.
Why should a video game be age rated when you can freely walk into an art gallery and see depictions of violence or sexually suggestive imagery? Why does music have to be rated and censored when you can easily pick up a book and read naughty swear words and violence?
If I play a video game that involves a gun, I don’t want to massacre a local school, and if I did want to do that, it’d make me mentally ill or sadistic by nature, not simply someone who has played a video game. Out of all the people who play video games and watch “questionable” material, how many of them are criminals or a danger to society? There is actually evidence to suggest that video games help vent frustration and create a more balanced person.
Did you see a nipple slip on a television advertisement? You better ring someone up and complain, otherwise innocent children may discover that we have nipples… Those things we are born with, those natural things that conservatism has taught us to be ashamed of. But isn’t it just skin?
Sex is evil isn’t it? It makes innocent 15 year old girls pregnant and spreads infections… Or does it? Most decent human beings will wear protection and treat sex with respect.
The problem is the minority spoils it for everyone. Because a man tried to blow himself up on an Aeroplane, we have to appear naked in front of security staff at airports. Because a small percentage of the population are sick sexual predators, we can’t film our children’s school plays or take snaps at the beach without drawing speculation.
There will always be a minority of people who are completely bat-shit insane. But the government shouldn’t pander to them. They are not representative of the people. We are the most watched nation on Earth because we peasants cannot be trusted on our own.