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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They don't earn or use much money, so they don't have formula to feed their babies, so they nurse long past the point where inhabitants of the first-world are offended. You have to ask yourself who the real weirdos are.

It's been observed, "There's no 'normal' life. There's just life."

Neither are "weirdos." They're just ways of life -- one in Western Civilization, the other in third-world places where freedom combined with a solid moral framework have yet to liberate their people to prosper. Here, it's disrespectful to peoples' dignity on a lot of fronts -- the kid in the photo, males in general because it probably puts them in the distasteful place of connecting childhood with sexual arrousal, and a large generation of women who were raised to be modest about nudity even in front of their own sex.

Necessity dictates the third world folks' approach; our own culture would be pretty nervous about seeing that Time Magazine cover replayed at, say, Disney World, or your kid's school play or graduation. A whole family in America bedding down in the same room year after year would raise hackles, and rightly -- what third world family with a lick of sense would prefer that?

Western civilization subscribes to modesty, because modesty protects privacy. Privacy respects dignity; where there is the prosperity to afford privacy, more respect is applied to dignity. But no matter where or why, the worst transgression that can be made against a fellow human, is to deprive him or her of dignity.

There are no weirdos here except for the exhibitionists.

71 posted on 05/11/2012 1:52:03 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent * By the way, Ted, voting for Romney is voting stupid.)
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To: Finny

Personally, I think that sending kids to prison-preparatory institutions called “public schools” is far more barbaric than anything that goes on in the third world, among many other things.


74 posted on 05/11/2012 1:54:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Seriously? You're that dense?)
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