Just MY 2 cents ….

 

I sincerely MISS when common sense was actually common!

 

 

For what seems to be the Seventy-BILLIONTH time, I have to wonder …

 

“What the HELL is WRONG with people!”

 

SERIOUSLY!

 

A couple of weeks ago there was a BIG hul-a-baloo over Adam Levine’s admittedly badly expressed comment regarding his disappointment over the voting choices of the American viewer’s for/against someone he was supporting in the singing completion program “The Voice”.  The immediate and often somewhat rabid furor over his comment, which in my opinion was taken completely OUT of context, was to my mind ridiculous and yet it got even usually intelligent people rather hysterical. BUT regarding so many REAL and IMPORTANT issues of today, even when viewing it all IN CONTEXT, I hear nothing but “crickets”, which is even scarier!

 

WHAT the HELL is WRONG with people??

WHAT the HELL is WRONG with AMERICANS?

SERIOUSLY! WHERE is our COMMON SENSE??

 

 

 

So many SUPPORT STUPID things like:

• Banning trans-fats and salt from restaurant food;
• Limiting how much soda someone can purchase at one time;
• Suspending 5 year olds because the hugged or kissed another student;
• Suspending a 7 year old because they used their finger like a gun;
• Deciding it’s not “SAFE” or “appropriate” for a child to take OTC aspirin or Midol while in school UNLESS in the presence of a nurse;
• That it’s somehow GOOD policy for schools to be able to decide whether the lunch a child’s Mother packed is ok for consumption or not, even to the point of taking rejected lunches off the child and forcing them to buy a school provided lunch instead.
• Saying a person is a CHILD and should NOT be held responsible for getting a job and providing their OWN health insurance until they are over 26 years of age;

 

Sadly I COULD go ON & ON with examples! It’s absolutely ridiculous, but they still support it under the guise of all the well polled buzz words and phrases such as:  public safety, child’s well-being, for the good of the people, etc.

 

Under the thought that it will damage a child’s idea or view of such things because the theme or concept is too “mature” for them to understand, we take it upon ourselves to ignore the parental responsibility and regulate that children under the age of 16 cannot even VIEW a movie if it has a sex scene  … yet NOW many of the SAME PEOPLE that support all of the above mentioned measures will also think it’s perfectly WISE, SAFE and APPROPRIATE for a CHILD of ANY AGE to be able to walk into a store, purchase and presumably take a Morning After Pill WITHOUT a Doctor’s approval or even a Parent’s knowledge, let alone their approval. What COULD go wrong with THIS plan?! Seriously!

 

HOW INSANE IS THIS?!

 

 

Even if you want to disregard what I consider to be the OBVIOUS other issues and simply focus on the social issues, IF you want to make the argument that if a child that is OVER the age of consent they SHOULD BE ABLE to get the Morning After Pill since they CAN consent to sex, while I completely disagree with this, I COULD at least understand that thought process. BUT what of the children UNDER the age of consent? WHY are there STILL crickets on THAT??? “UNDER THE AGE OF CONSENT” should be ringing warning bells with EVERYONE! THAT should be something that EVERYONE, regardless of your political ideals, SHOULD be able to understand is NOT a good idea and on SO MANY LEVELS and in SO MANY DIRECTIONS.

 

Where is the critical thinking, people?

 

WHY is this NOT something that people are willing to use common sense on?

 

Where are all of the bleeding hearts that are usually willing to go to war protesting to protect our children from things like French fries, milkshakes and toys in Happy Meals? These are CHILDREN we are speaking of people. They are NOT equipped to be treated as adults.

 

 

And before any IDIOTS are foolish enough to start preaching to me that this is just like giving condoms to boys; let me just say here and now that it’s NOT anything of the sort!

 

A condom is worn OUTSIDE the body and other than a possible materials allergy, does not have any long term or lasting effect on the boys (or girls) using them. However, the Morning After Pill is a HORMONE which is INGESTED INTO THE BODY! THAT is DIFFERENT!!! Adult women have suffered detrimental effects from taking hormones, so I can just imagine how a child would react and while the Morning After Pill has been medically deemed “safe” for adult women, where are the studies that prove it would not have short or long term or even lasting effects if taken by a child? Again …. crickets!

 

And that is JUST addressing the physical issues, what about addressing the emotional issues involved here? Many children of a consenting age are still ill prepared to deal with such adult themes, how is a child under the consenting age expected to be able to deal with such matters?

 

We already have a problem with teenage pregnancy; self-esteem issues; bullying and even suicide issues. How is THIS really going to impact such things? While one MIGHT argue that it would resolve the pregnancy issue, one would be wrong. While SOME pregnancies may be eliminated, it still does not address the emotional scars that such a decision would carry and bonus many CHILDREN are getting pregnant on purpose, so how does this address that?

 

Other than the fact that if they become sexually active early on, these girls will be taking a lot more hormones than is good for them, what about thinking about how will taking hormones such as these affect their delicate physical / emotional / psychological / physiological development. By allowing such things we are not only possibly allowing some serious future health issues, we are also definitely sending some dangerously mixed messages to our children and at a time when they desperately NEED to depend on us for thoughtful and common sense guidance in such important, delicate and life-altering matters.

 

If nothing else, by allowing such things we are ignoring the emotional growth of our children and putting unnecessary adult pressures on them without arming them with the emotional mechanisms to enable them to deal with such adult matters.

 

In one breath, we are saying a person that is 26 years old is still a “child” and should not be held responsible for their actions, yet in the next we are expecting a TRUE child who is under the age of consent to not only be responsible for adult decisions, but to be adult enough to understand the ramifications of their actions in adult matters they aren’t even legally allowed to view on a movie screen. HOW is this rational or responsible?

 

People had better STOP falling for this kind of crap, start THINKIN and start speaking out or the hell we think we are paying now with our children, not to mention our society, is going to be nothing compared to what will come in our future and do not even be foolish enough to think we won’t have to deal with the ramifications of such terrible decisions as the Morning After Pill, we WILL and we will pay a HUGE price that I do not believe any of us are really prepared for.

 

Like I said in the beginning, I sincerely MISS when common sense actually WAS common. I really encourage EVERYONE to start THINKING about ALL the “little” things that WE as individuals do and accept on a daily basis. REALLY think about the entire situation from all directions before you agree to it, accept it or worse, don’t even question such situations, ideas or thoughts.

 

 

Start thinking critically and make sure you USE the common sense you were born with BEFORE making decisions that not only affect you but affect your children. Start LISTENING to that little voice that is screaming at you “This is WRONG! STOP IT!”

 

NOW what are YOU going to do about it?

 

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Just so ya’ll know, I KNOW I’m going to get a LOT of flack and comments on this from IDIOTS that will want to argue with me about WHO gets to determine WHAT “common sense” really IS. Let me save ya’ll some time and effort … don’t even bother.  I’m NOT going to argue or even debate such things.

If you SERIOUSLY do not understand what “common sense” REALLY is to the point that you are willing to question, debate and argue the semantics of it, then you have bigger problems than I’m in the mood for or have the time to deal with, so save it for someone else and just keep movin along, I’m just NOT playing that game.