Why do you have children?

I see some people ask others “why don’t you have children?” and I believe it’s a stupid question. Not having any children should not be asked about. In fact, what should we ask people is “why do you have children?”

We need license for many things, such as driving. However, having children does not require anything. Having children is a big and important responsibility and not everyone should be allowed to have children. Those who do not have children, in my opinion, have done their social and human duty better than others.

I believe people with no children realize how important and serious this responsibility is. Not having children should not be questioned; it’s having children that should be criticized.

With current problems in the world, having children in many cases is cruelty to that child and should be considered selfishness. We give birth to children, but we don’t own them. Raising them good is our responsibility and duty. They’re not our properties, so we can’t treat them anyway we want.

If they are oppressed in any way, whether physical or emotional, we are guilty. If they are dissatisfied with the situation they are in, we are responsible. I’m not against breeding at all, what I’m against is giving birth to children without being prepared for the responsibilities.

I also believe nobody should be forced to have children nor be forced to not having children. I believe we should spread knowledge and information about it. Forcing people to not having children is not acceptable at all, just like how forcing people to have children is wrong.

A journalist’s job

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If someone says to you it’s raining outside and someone else says to you it’s not raining outside, your job is not to say “person A says it’s raining, person B says it’s not raining.” Your job is to open the fucking window and find out if it’s raining outside.

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Start educating people about sexism when they are children

I’ve seen an amazing video of kids reacting to sexism and I was wondering is it because they are educated about sexism or this is just their humane nature. The video was about a females getting paid less than males and how kids were reacting to this discrimination.

I don’t think those kids were educated about sexism and I believe their reaction and what they did was just their nature. Humans are not sexist, racist, discriminatory, etc. by nature. They are just taught wrong. Our kids watch their environment and learn its behavior.

Now, if we start educating our children about sexism (and other konds of discrimination), they won’t act as sexists, etc. We should teach them to treat every person equally with justice, and teach them if they were treated less, they should step up and fight for their rights.

Most of us were never taught to be strong. Nobody taught us to fight against those who treat us with discrimination. We should stop this. We learned it the hard way, we should make it easy for next generations.

https://open.tube/videos/watch/ed0fbb2d-b6f6-4825-877f-359e00bf3220
The effects of sexism on children. Reactions to female discrimination

How would you write the rules?

Yesterday, Chris “Muesli” asked an interesting question that I thought can be a good blog post. If we were in power, what rules would be write?

You are to be born in 24 hours. You are also to write all the rules that will govern the society in which you will live. However, you do not know if you will be born bright or retarded, black or white, male or female, rich or poor, able or disabled.

How would you write the rules?

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Sweden will criminalize underage marriage even abroad

In a week, Sweden will criminalize underage marriage even if marriages have taken place outside of Swedish borders. This is a great thing happening for Swedish people and world. Most underage marriages are forced by parents.

Even if underage marriage is not forced by parents, it’s still child abuse. Sadly, some countries don’t recognize such marriage as child abuse and they allow it.

Legal age for marriage is 18 in most countries. However I, personally, think it should be 21. Marrying a person when you’re young is not wrong but may have terrible impacts. Now imagine what terrible impact it has when you’re underage.

Taking down statues and symbols of slavery

Some people in United States have taken down some statues of slave owners in Washington, D.C. and some other cities. I believe there’s no good point in having them statues up. Protesters have set them on fire and I’m really glad this happened as it can be a symbol of people’s anger towards racism and racist people.

I also believe nobody should harm a racist person and the only good way is to talk to them and educate them and if it wasn’t enough, then leaving them alone. If they have no harm, then leaving them is not a bad idea. However, harm is not only physical. If a person harms another person, he should be punished, of course in a proper humane way.

We should respect human liberties no matter if they are offensive to us. Punishment is not against human rights but we should not punish people in a way that it violates their humanly rights.

William Faulkner: Fear and Tyranny

What threatens us today is fear.

Not the atom bomb, nor even fear of it, because if the atom bomb fell on Oxford tonight, all it could do would be to kill us, which is nothing, since in doing that, it would have robbed itself of its only power over us — which is fear of it, the being afraid of it.

Our danger is not that. Our danger is in the forces of the world today which are trying to use man’s fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass by fear and bribery — giving him free food which he has not earned, easy and valueless money which he has not worked for.

That is what we must resist, if we are to change the world for man’s peace and security.

It is not men in the mass who can and will save Man; it is Man himself, created in the image of God so that he shall have the power and the will to choose right from wrong, and so be able to save himself because he is worth saving.

Man, the individual men and women, who will refuse always to be tricked or frightened or bribed into surrendering, not just the right but the duty too, to choose between justice and injustice, courage and cowardice, sacrifice and greed, pity and self — who will believe always not only in the right of man to be free of injustice and rapacity and deception, but the duty and responsibility of man to see that justice and truth and pity and compassion are done.

So never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.

If you, not just you in this room tonight but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as but individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

In one generation, all the Napoleons and Hitlers and Caesars and Mussolinis and Stalins, and all the other tyrants who want power and aggrandizement, and all the simple politicians and time-servers who themselves are merely baffled or ignorant or afraid, who have used, or are using, or hope to use, man’s fear and greed for man’s enslavement, will have vanished from the face of it.

About Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the US South when she was 6 years old.

For her to attend school her first day, federal marshals with guns had to make way through a crowd of grown men and women screaming “nigger”, spitting on her, threatening her life, and waving confederate flags. They even carried a small coffin with a Black baby doll inside, which caused Ruby nightmares at the time. ⁠

In her classroom, all her classmates were either withdrawn by angry parents or abandoned the class refusing to sit with the 6-year-old.⁠

Nearly all the teachers abandoned the school except for one. For the entire school year, Ruby went to school to a classroom that was just her and the one teacher that didn’t refuse her.⁠

She refused to eat any food that wasn’t pre-packaged and sealed because they threatened to poison her.⁠

Ruby is only 65 years old today. It wasn’t a long time ago that a lot of racist people were living among us; now many people consider racism a crime. However, we are facing a systematic racism and discrimination everyday and we should fight against it.

We should know that there’s a lot of people like Ruby who we should support to make changes. Our fight continues.