When 'basic social norms' come with the idea that 'what comes naturally to a human being is unacceptable', this society is teaching children there is something intrinsically wrong with them. When people grow up with that concept being reinforced...
we get Rapists! We get sociopaths. We get autisms and sexual dysfunctions. We get religious fundamentalists who think we're 'basically evil creatures'. We get systems of punishment and control, because 'what you are is something that does what society cannot tolerate'. This is a symptom of a society that is ACTIVELY HOSTILE towards humans.
I understand that for the most part, interacting with humans is like having someone drop a turd in your cereal, but honestly, is it the three year olds who still feel the freedom to make noise when they're happy that are making you miserable, or the fact that none of the adults are capable of expressing any emotion whatsoever because we shut them up when they were little?
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When 'basic social norms' come with the idea that 'what comes naturally to a human being is unacceptable', this society is teaching children there is something intrinsically wrong with them. When people grow up with that concept being reinforced...
we get Rapists! We get sociopaths. We get autisms and sexual dysfunctions. We get religious fundamentalists who think we're 'basically evil creatures'. We get systems of punishment and control, because 'what you are is something that does what society cannot tolerate'. This is a symptom of a society that is ACTIVELY HOSTILE towards humans.
I understand that for the most part, interacting with humans is like having someone drop a turd in your cereal, but honestly, is it the three year olds who still feel the freedom to make noise when they're happy that are making you miserable, or the fact that none of the adults are capable of expressing any emotion whatsoever because we shut them up when they were little?