When we were kids we had to be forced to eat our brocolli. There was no inherent reason why we didn’t like it, we just refused to eat it based on the principal that it was green and a vegetable. I find nothing wrong with this, because kids are generally nonsensical and don’t need to find reasons, because reasoning is a skill that should be devloped as we mature.
What I do find wrong is how adults can extend this principal well past its overdue point. But unlike a library book, the fee is not laughable. Adults refuse to do all sorts of things based on nothing more than a belief: they refuse to try the brocolli.
This is the root of many major problems in our society. Racisim, gay bashing, unequal rights. If people would give certain things a chance, instead of blindly forming an opinion, then the world wouldn’t be full of insensitive babies. Plus, if this happened, the French may cease to exist…
As we age, the arguments become more unresonable. Your parents could coax you into eating Brocolli by saying, if you eat 3 pieces of it, you get dessert, once you “negoatiated” down to 2 pieces, you got dessert. However:
This is a typical coversation between a leafs fan and a Canadians fan:
Habs fan: Hey man, why do you hate the Habs?
Leafs fan: Cause they suck, man.
Hab fan: Well, historically the Habs have a better record.
Leafs fan: Fuck you.
And…. no one gets dessert… but they may get drunk.
We have problems as adults in trying or accepting new things. People can try skydiving, white water rafting etc. But we hear about two men in love and we think that the second coming of the devil is nigh.
In short, we are adults. Act like it! You don’t have to accept things, but understand them before forming your opinion. Except of course people in hood, you just keep on shooting eachother.
By they way: For all the kids out there, eat your damn Brocolli.
Gay is not Brocolli
When we were kids we had to be forced to eat our brocolli. There was no inherent reason why we didn’t like it, we just refused to eat it based on the principal that it was green and a vegetable. I find nothing wrong with this, because kids are generally nonsensical and don’t need to find reasons, because reasoning is a skill that should be devloped as we mature.
What I do find wrong is how adults can extend this principal well past its overdue point. But unlike a library book, the fee is not laughable. Adults refuse to do all sorts of things based on nothing more than a belief: they refuse to try the brocolli.
This is the root of many major problems in our society. Racisim, gay bashing, unequal rights. If people would give certain things a chance, instead of blindly forming an opinion, then the world wouldn’t be full of insensitive babies. Plus, if this happened, the French may cease to exist…
As we age, the arguments become more unresonable. Your parents could coax you into eating Brocolli by saying, if you eat 3 pieces of it, you get dessert, once you “negoatiated” down to 2 pieces, you got dessert. However:
This is a typical coversation between a leafs fan and a Canadians fan:
Habs fan: Hey man, why do you hate the Habs?
Leafs fan: Cause they suck, man.
Hab fan: Well, historically the Habs have a better record.
Leafs fan: Fuck you.
And…. no one gets dessert… but they may get drunk.
We have problems as adults in trying or accepting new things. People can try skydiving, white water rafting etc. But we hear about two men in love and we think that the second coming of the devil is nigh.
In short, we are adults. Act like it! You don’t have to accept things, but understand them before forming your opinion. Except of course people in hood, you just keep on shooting eachother.
By they way: For all the kids out there, eat your damn Brocolli.