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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 309662" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Annd it might simply have been that in the picture, grandma's face was more in light while grandson's face, being smaller and perhaps hidden by the book, was more in shadow.</p><p></p><p>I wrote a short story which was published in the local paper. A local activist and friend of mine came to me to complain about what I had written - in my story I had mentioned the kids passing around cans of coke (lower case C). My friend was objecting because he felt my story was one more example of promotion of caffeine-laden drinks to teenagers and therefore my story was immoral and serving the marketing campaigns of what he sees as immoral multinational drug pushing companies.</p><p></p><p>I had thought I'd written an innocent story about kids having fun...</p><p></p><p>ANother story - years ago (decaes ago) husband & I used to occasionally vist a local nude beach. To get to tis beach you have to walk for almost an hour along a wild beach, through thorny brush, along animal tracks over ants nests and finally clamber down a narrow almost vertical cliff path, to a tiny scrap of rocky inlet surrounded by sheer cliffs four metres high. Anyone wanting to 'perve' on nude bathers is always visible and can be easily thwarted by beathers edging up against the cliff edge or under the sandstone overhang. You have to go to a lot of trouble to get an eyefull, and what you see is generally not worth looking at anyway.</p><p>One afternoon I was working in my garden when a local religious nutter (and remember, I do go to church so this guy was not a nutter in my view simply because he was religious) came around to visit with his tracts and pamphlets. He lowered his voice almost conspiratorially to tell me of the horrors and outrage he had witnessed that very afternoon at the nude beach. He was saying that such people are clear evidence of the moral decay in our society and how we must join in protest at the flagrant and open display of so much flesh, right there for all to see.</p><p>I couldn't resist it. "Yes, it's right there for all to see - right after you trek across the beach, tripping over the anchor ropes of all the pleasure craft that tie up illegally, then you shred your skin by clambering through the thorny bushes on the headland, get bittten by several nests of bull-ants, risk getting gored by feral pigs before finally tumbling down the water-erodfed ravine to land on the rocky beach. Yes, some people go to amazing lengths in order to be outraged."</p><p>In other words - if it offends you, don't peer over the cliff top. It's not even signposted! There is no other reason for anyone to be there.</p><p></p><p>Some people need a cause in life. Frankly, the environment is perhaps a more worthy cause. Or third world poverty. Morality is simply too subjective, it's too variable from one society to another, we should stop trying to impose our own moral standards on everybody else.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 309662, member: 1991"] Annd it might simply have been that in the picture, grandma's face was more in light while grandson's face, being smaller and perhaps hidden by the book, was more in shadow. I wrote a short story which was published in the local paper. A local activist and friend of mine came to me to complain about what I had written - in my story I had mentioned the kids passing around cans of coke (lower case C). My friend was objecting because he felt my story was one more example of promotion of caffeine-laden drinks to teenagers and therefore my story was immoral and serving the marketing campaigns of what he sees as immoral multinational drug pushing companies. I had thought I'd written an innocent story about kids having fun... ANother story - years ago (decaes ago) husband & I used to occasionally vist a local nude beach. To get to tis beach you have to walk for almost an hour along a wild beach, through thorny brush, along animal tracks over ants nests and finally clamber down a narrow almost vertical cliff path, to a tiny scrap of rocky inlet surrounded by sheer cliffs four metres high. Anyone wanting to 'perve' on nude bathers is always visible and can be easily thwarted by beathers edging up against the cliff edge or under the sandstone overhang. You have to go to a lot of trouble to get an eyefull, and what you see is generally not worth looking at anyway. One afternoon I was working in my garden when a local religious nutter (and remember, I do go to church so this guy was not a nutter in my view simply because he was religious) came around to visit with his tracts and pamphlets. He lowered his voice almost conspiratorially to tell me of the horrors and outrage he had witnessed that very afternoon at the nude beach. He was saying that such people are clear evidence of the moral decay in our society and how we must join in protest at the flagrant and open display of so much flesh, right there for all to see. I couldn't resist it. "Yes, it's right there for all to see - right after you trek across the beach, tripping over the anchor ropes of all the pleasure craft that tie up illegally, then you shred your skin by clambering through the thorny bushes on the headland, get bittten by several nests of bull-ants, risk getting gored by feral pigs before finally tumbling down the water-erodfed ravine to land on the rocky beach. Yes, some people go to amazing lengths in order to be outraged." In other words - if it offends you, don't peer over the cliff top. It's not even signposted! There is no other reason for anyone to be there. Some people need a cause in life. Frankly, the environment is perhaps a more worthy cause. Or third world poverty. Morality is simply too subjective, it's too variable from one society to another, we should stop trying to impose our own moral standards on everybody else. Marg [/QUOTE]
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