You know, some people preach ‘acceptance’ as if you -have- to accept someone for what they are because they have the right to be that person.

It’s true, they do, and we should, so long as it doesn’t affect us personally.

The problem is where to draw the line. You may start drawing the line at ‘accepting’ homosexuals today. Which is fine. I’m all for gay rights. Woo!

But then, tomorrow, someone else starts pushing that line a little further. Today, it is homosexuals. Tomorrow, it’s polygamist marriages. Then it’s beastiality. Then it’s pedophilia. Then it’s rape. Then it’s murder.

History has seen people push the line for thousands of years, but only in the past 500 have we really seen just how far the line will stretch. It used to be that women couldn’t own land. Now they’re equals to men, (As they should be. Don’t go thinkin’ I hate ladies.)

Pretty soon there’s going to be no discernible line at all. When do you start to absolutely draw the line and not make exceptions?

The idea that, ‘Society is right,’ has been a flawed concept for quite some time. Society has been shown to sway to the whims of minorities for years. (Look at the Women’s Rights movement, for example.)

Demanding ‘acceptance’ of another person’s lifestyle might be the very thing that has led to the breakdown in society we have today. It is also counter-productive to ‘demand’ or ‘want’ everyone to be accepting of someone else’s lifestyle or choices. If you preach ‘acceptance’, you aren’t practicing it. Instead, you’re trying to force someone else to look at the world the same way you do. You’re not accepting that they have their own views and opinions on the world, based on their own experiences.

Acceptance is hard to pull off, and even harder when you’re trying to force people to accept something, because then you’re a hypocrite.