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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
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To be human also is the ability to create music that brings you to tears, and art that leaves you speechless..
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Thats what I meant about "responding". Sometimes I think of a better way to express myself way after the fact.
What exactly is it that animals learn? How to survive. From their parents, herd, whatever. Its an instinctive behavior, right? They have to learn this in order to survive. Hardly puts us on the same plane.
Humans, yes, we are animals, but have evolved beyond simply surviving. Granted, you can't tell that by what you see in everyday newspapers or TV, but civilizations rise and fall, and each one hopefully learns something from the past. Again, we seem to be regressing in that respect. But its the choices being made, by those in power, causing this, not the fact that we're on the same playing field as animals.
Hitler is a prime example of what I said about choosing to live positively or negatively. He chose the negative side. He wasn't the worse by any means. The doctors who preformed the experiments in his camps,....they chose to show the worst side of humanity. They did it for the pleasure, science be dammed.
Censoring music/shows whatever in my family isn't done without explanations ad nauseum. You can believe they know exactly why it isn't allowed. Explanations are cruicial to understanding whats right and wrong. Thats part of the reason I fell away from my religious training. No questions were allowed. You believed on faith alone, or were dammed.
Of course the Burger King ad has a message! Do you see the last part?? "Booty is booty" Kids pick up phrases instantly. Please! Thats what anyone would want their daughter to grow up like? Would you be proud of YOUR daughter if she were one of those? Its not "just a commercial. "
Being human means rising above this crap, not just the ads, but the entire world wide mess. It means doing whats right, whether thats picking up trash that isn't yours, or teaching your own right from wrong.
I haven't the proper vocabulary to state exactly what I"m trying to say. Oh, and I have to be gone for a while, so don't think I'm ignoring you.