# anada "Politically Correct # 210 Lachrymite" +### +### +#### +### # # # # # # # # # # by # # # ## # # # # # # 06 Lachrymite # .# ## # # .# # .# # .# nov *### * # * *### * *### * *### * 2000 .+#################################################################.net I've been thinking, and I've been quite an asshole over the years. I can't count how many times I may have said something a minority group, whether women, a racial minority, or people from a certain economic background, may have found offensive. This was obviously extremely evil and heinous of me, and I'd like to turn over a new leaf. As a matter of fact, I think that we should outlaw all words that may offend a minority group of some sort. That way, members of minority social groups won't feel held down and oppressed by long standing hate terms. We won't have to worry about someone not reaching their potential, because they won't have anyone trying to scar their self-esteem. It would be a step towards a level playing field for everyone. You know, while we are on the subject, maybe we should try to make everybody happy. Maybe we should try to not say things that individuals will find offensive either. We should probably outlaw individual insults towards people, because those might hurt their self-esteem. We shouldn't have to make them rely on building up any self-esteem of their own, despite harsh words; let's not take the chance of limiting their world and possibly oppressing them with our ridiculing comments. I do realize that this may be a little extreme, but in the end it's for the betterment of everyone. It's best not to take chances and gamble with someone's self image. Hey, I just thought of something. Some people might find me talking about certain subjects offensive. Now, I know I'm not insulting them or anything, but what if they've had a traumatic experience related to it? I think we should outlaw talking about child molestation, for example, to spare the feelings of all those poor people who were sexually abused as children. We don't want to make them re-live that, that would cause even more emotional problems for them than they may have already. We should probably outlaw talking about religion, too, because someone of different beliefs might get offended. We don't want to risk ruining anyone's potential as a human because of an emotionally scarring experience they have to have flashbacks to, flashbacks triggered by a careless thought or conversation. Abusive nuns and religious fasting for days on end, we really shouldn't mention any of it around people who may have experienced it. Let's outlaw talking about molestation and religion, that way we don't have to worry about offending anyone. People generally get upset by death too. We don't want to upset anyone, so let's outlaw talking about the different ways you can die, in case someone had a relative or close friend die that way. It would make them upset to be reminded of it, and they might get depressed or morbidly obsessed with the death of the loved one. So let's outlaw talking about cancer, heart disease, AIDS, brain aneurisms, and pretty much every other medical problem. Actually, now that I think about it, we should probably not let people talk about cars either, because people die in car accidents, and guns kill people too, so we shouldn't talk about them either. Lots of people drown, even more than are killed by guns, so let's not talk about water. And what about all of the Jewish people killed in the Holocaust? We don't want to risk upsetting anyone of Jewish descent or belief, so let's not talking about World War II. Hmm. Phairgirl has this weird hatred of certain words. I won't use any of them, because that might oppress her skills as an editor. She might not be able to make sure this file is grammatically correct, if I used a word she didn't like hearing or looking at. We can't have that limit her potential as an editor, so let's outlaw the infamous word she hates. I'm afraid I'll have to write it once so everyone knows which word is illegal... so cover your eyes, Phairgirl, here goes... CREAMY. Yes, she completely hates that word. It makes her cringe. Let's just outlaw it, because it upsets her, and we don't want anyone getting upset and potentially having their personal growth as a human being limited. Finally, we should probably outlaw talking about politics. It causes a lot of arguments, debates, and unhappiness. Couples break up and friends part ways because of intensely held political beliefs. Politics has caused too much war and death, which of course limit human potential. We won't have to worry about people picking a political candidate anymore or anything, because we're doing a good job running everything for everyone anyways, under our rule everybody gets an equal chance to reach their full potential. Now that the people are unable to make any choice contrary to the best interests of everyone, everyone will be happy. Of course, there are all those pesky writers and musicians and all those damned artists and film makers. But who cares about them? Now that we've outlawed saying anything from child molestation to the word Phairgirl hates, they won't have enough material to create anything anyways. That means they'll have to break the law to do so, and then we can just throw them in jail for oppressing other people. No more unhappy artists! * * * Now, while that's obviously going to extremes, it's by no means an unrealistic possibility for the future. The quickest way to a dictatorship is when the people no longer are able to speak. The fastest way to an oppressive government is to destroy an individual's right to have their opinion, however controverisal, be known. It seems to me that most people who are crying for the end of oppression from verbal insult really just want one thing. They don't want an end to the oppression. They want to run your life the way they think it should best be run. That isn't freedom from oppression, that's just a tyranny of misplaced goodwill. I believe only one person knows how best to run my life; me. And I believe only one person knows how best to runs yours. You do. Not Al Gore, not George W. Bush, not even Ralph Nader. None of these people know what's really best for you. Each of them would gladly silence a particular voice, whether it be saying nasty things to people, or making "irreverent" art. That's why I'm voting for Harry Browne. The Libertarian Party isn't out to run your life. They're out to try to make sure you're allowed to run your life as you see fit, and not how Gore or Bush or Nader do. I don't know about you, but that's a lot more appealing to me than being forced to live the way someone else wants me to. So I guess now it becomes a question of, do you want aNAda to be inspected by the government every release for possibly offensive content? Neither do I. Maybe you should be voting for Harry Browne, too. .+########################################################################## anada210 by Lachrymite (c) 2000 ###################################################################anada.net