Constructive gadfly
Published on July 8, 2004 By stevendedalus In Personal Relationships

A married person should always cooperate with his/her mate.

The breadwinner of a relationship by definition should expect the other to be subservient.

You approach a red light at four in the morning and no traffic, you should slow down but not bother to stop.

A motorist abruptly cuts in front of you, which warrants a prolonged blare of the horn, profanity and the finger.

A woman, absorbed in a shopping aisle wanders away from her cart and purse, you must be a busybody and tell her she shouldn’t be so careless.

You’re driving in a residential area; there appears to be no children at play; nevertheless, you decrease your speed and look for parked cars on both sides just in case.

You’re at a party and ethnic jokes abound — you passively join the laughter.

Though you’re conservative, you feel victimized by your employer; you search out a trial lawyer and sue for damages.

Though you are against the Iraq war, you fully agree that there is no limit to the cost of protecting our troops, but put a definite limit on the cost of rebuilding the war-torn country.

You find homosexuality repulsive, but you patronize a gay friend even though you think he or she belongs in rehab clinic.

 

Copyright © 2004 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: July, 8, 2004.


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on Jul 10, 2004
Karma, I love the digital camera trick. As for the transexual-he/she deserves praise for undergoing a difficult surgery and being true to him/herself.


*groan*

transexuals deserve praise now? Tolerance I can understand, acceptance, not for me, but, hey, if it's your bag, go ahead...but upheld as paragons of virtue? Now THAT'S a stretch.
on Jul 10, 2004
I suppose it is presumptuous on my part to make an attempt to scan the inner feelings of one so afflicted, but I can safely assume that, whatever, it is a tortuous decision, and in that respect it is virtue but hardly high on the list of philosphical virtues.
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