Friday, July 16, 2010

Tolerance or kiss-assery?

There's a fine line between "tolerance" and "kiss-assery".

Tolerance:

  • Accepting the fact that as much as you like Lady Gaga because she's a performance artist who is not afraid to express herself, some people see "unique" as "freak"
  • Accepting the fact that as much as you think Twilight gives you brain damage, others consider it as the best novel series in the entire universe and will practically bite your head off if you say that Harry Potter is better
  • Accepting the fact that people blog about their experiences instead of your own


Kiss-assery:

  • Discovering that your neighbor is a pedophile and you say, "Hey, to each his own!"


Thursday, July 15, 2010

Suicide - is it YOUR fault?

hangman
The question was, "if your son died and the last thing he had before he died was an argument with his girlfriend, would you blame the girlfriend for your son's death?"

It's a simple question. And my simple answer is "no".
Of course I would naturally feel evilly bad towards the girlfriend because of that situation but that wouldn't mean I would blame her. Suicide is suicide. There's a reason why we distinguish "killing yourself" from "murder". Blaming the girlfriend amounts to thinking she murdered your son instead of accepting that your son killed himself -- it may seem like a long shot, but that's how I see it. And hey, this is my blog. If you disagree, feel free to comment but stop harassing me to write what you think is right (make your own damn blog if you want to).

"But what drove the guy into committing suicide? Shouldn't the blame fall on the girlfriend?"
First of all, we're already leaving the "simple question" arena and delving into "what if's".