Good for you! At least he's taking it on fics - here in my town of residence, the charitable organization of the Catholic Church has said it will stop arranging adoptions rather than be forced to continue allowing homosexual couples to adopt children. Now, mind you, they've been quietly doing just that for many years: several dozen kids have been placed over that time with no reports of any problems. But this is the New and Improved Church, morally consistent through and through (we'll just overlook that little child sex abuse problem), and it's better for hard-to-place kids to bounce around the foster system than to have stable homes with the damned, I suppose.
As to ranting about a fanfic which *absolutely no one* forced this poor sod to read, I sometimes fear the downside of the 21st century ability to buy / listen to / watch exactly what we want exactly when we want to is making folks far less willing to have even a moment of their time consumed by something that isn't exactly what they want to experience. But if one is never exposed to anything different, anything possibly disagreeable, how does one grow? A mind unchallenged gets rusty and covered in cobwebs. I may not agree with everything I read, but at least it makes me think about my own beliefs and why I hold them.
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Date: 2006-03-24 03:41 pm (UTC)As to ranting about a fanfic which *absolutely no one* forced this poor sod to read, I sometimes fear the downside of the 21st century ability to buy / listen to / watch exactly what we want exactly when we want to is making folks far less willing to have even a moment of their time consumed by something that isn't exactly what they want to experience. But if one is never exposed to anything different, anything possibly disagreeable, how does one grow? A mind unchallenged gets rusty and covered in cobwebs. I may not agree with everything I read, but at least it makes me think about my own beliefs and why I hold them.