Following up after Satan with some relevant issues. In this case, poor behavior which is
supposedly excused by certain factors which I consider NOT excuses. The general topic is revisiting "things which piss me off."
Religious Nuts. I go to church on Sunday. Mass takes about an hour, then you’re done
for Sunday and the rest of the week. Are
you only on your best behavior for that hour?
Or did you pay your dues by listening to a sermon and donating something
to the basket, so you’re free to screw with people everywhere outside the
church for the rest of the week, until you come back to church and apologize for all
the crap you did? Come on.
OH, and after we get communion, the remarks should be short
and simple. My dad considered us within
our rights to leave after communion, but I prefer to wait until we’re excused
(“Mass is ended, go in peace to love and serve the Lord”). That being the case, I’d hope the pastor has
the common sense not to ramble on.
Sadly, he didn’t get the memo.
SMH.
Being religious isn't a carte blanche to behave poorly. Obviously Muslim suicide bombers are at the top of the list, but there are plenty of Christians who misbehave and have the nerve to expect us to excuse them because their religion induces them to behave this way. If the behavior would be unacceptable from an atheist, it's unacceptable from you.
Then you get these a-holes who argue that “’separation of
church and state’ isn’t in the Constitution.”
Yes it is, and for making that argument I’ll put you in the same
category as those who argue that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, the world
is flat, vaccines don’t work, or 9/11 was an inside job, etc. And guess which orange asshole they voted
for? Hint, it wasn’t Hillary Clinton or
Gary Johnson.
Mean Drunks. What’s astonishing about these people is
that they KNOW how alcohol affects them and they STILL get drunk and cause
problems. If it were possible to
reinstate Prohibition selectively for these people I’d say make it so. Drunk driving, spousal abuse, starting
fights, the list of negative externalities caused by alcohol goes on. Or maybe send them all off to a village by
themselves. After so many DUIs or A&B’s
due to alcohol, we’ll send you to a special village or town exclusively for
assholes like them.
Similar are those who misbehave but blame their behavior
on the drugs they do, as if that excuses them.
Again, if you KNOW drugs make you an asshole and you do them anyway,
that still makes you an asshole for doing drugs. Get clean.
Stoners. Not stoners in general, but those who aren’t
cool. My first exposure to stoners were
some jackasses in college who would go to class stoned and treat me like shit
because I didn’t smoke weed. Too many
people think that blazing up entitles them to act like a dick because they’re
“cool”. No, you’re an asshole who smokes
weed. By now weed is so prevalent that
smoking it is no longer noteworthy, much less an excuse to be a jerk. Nothing about smoking it gives you ANY
excuse to treat people poorly. In fact,
given weed’s tendency to mellow out and increase tolerance, if you’re an
asshole on weed, or an asshole who smokes weed, that makes it that much
worse. NO BUD FOR YOU.
While I’m on the topic of things which piss me off, it’s becomes
readily apparent that opposition to legalizing marijuana is motivated not by any
good faith or legitimate concern for the effects of the drug itself, but pure
spite. The majority of stoners seem to
be liberal Democrats or further left on the spectrum, so “screw them”: let’s keep marijuana illegal just to cause
problems for them. This is why Nixon put
it on Schedule I back in the early 70s even though, even then, the scientists
and politicians were well aware that pot was less harmful than alcohol. Do we have a right to ban things simply
because we don’t like them? If you asked
Jefferson and Madison they’d tell you to get lost. “We didn’t fight the British and establish a
free country so you could legislate your own personal issues. Get real.”
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