“To throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one.” When I started reading this, I thought of one thing, Utopia; which leads me to think of communism. Communism does not work, plain and simple. I am VERY anti-communist and I have no use for communism. When I get past my absolute hatred of communist, socialism and all such things and actually look into what I get out of the story, I get the following:
1) It is against my religion. It openly talks about nude priests and priestesses, and how they will “service” anyone who desired it. As a Christian I KNOW that sex outside of wedlock is wrong. I will not listen to or tolerate something that I am so adamantly against.
2) Talking about keeping a child locked up in a tool closet is not sufficient care giving. Abuse to anyone, especially children and women is wrong and sadistic. Anyone who abuses children like that or even supports that by writing or reading in approval of such behavior needs to be taken out behind the wood shed and “taught a lesson” that they will never forget.
3) The communism, I just can’t get out of my mind. I feel like anyone that chooses to read this and doesn’t feel like they are being anti-patriotic has something wrong in their head. This story stands to abolish everything that this country, the United States of America, stands for.
If I wanted to read a story that talked about how wonderful communism in theory is, I would have gone to a secular university in California that taught the Communist Manifesto, but I didn’t I came to Southeastern to get a good, God-centered education. I sure know that it would have been cheaper to go the first avenue. There is nothing that I approve of in this essay. I know that you will think that I am being closed-minded, or perhaps that I did not get anything out if it. But I most definitely did. I was made surer of how I feel about anti-freedom teachings. As for me, myself, and I, I will support the US and not turn into a Communist, Anti-American. I feel as though this story and thoughts like it directly threaten my freedoms. I will keep my Second Amendment rights (and all others). I heard it said on a TV show and I fully believe it:”when guns are outlawed, I will become an outlaw.” When my freedoms are outlawed, I will be an outlaw.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Not
I PLEDGE ALLIGENCE TO THE FLAG OF THE COMMUNIST STATES OF AMERICA.
Just because a story talks about something (such as sex outside of marriage) doesn't mean that it is advocating it. Also, even if it were advocating it, for a person to read (and even get something out of) the story wouldn't mean that that person is condoning what the story is advocating. For example of this second point, if you hate communism so much, you actually might want to read the communist manifesto so that you can know more about what it is you are hating and thus also better understand what it is that you support.
ReplyDeleteThis post really does not engage the text. In fact, you keep giving unthoughtful, knee-jerk reactions against the texts we're reading. Instead, you should put the time and energy that you spend feeling offended into trying to understand the story.