Just turn the page
This letter is in response to Gwen Babcock's letter referencing the pictures of dead animals in the paper. She states that hunters need their own insert to display their kill. Also that her 5-year-old daughter is offended. I don't want to downplay her opinion, but to remind her that this is America. People are different. We live different, worship different, talk different, dress different, act different, and yes have different opinions. But that is the back bone of our great country; That we can express and live our differences openly and freely. Just as hunters have the right to hunt and show off their kills, those who don't agree with this sport have the right to "overlook" the stories and pictures. Just turn the page!
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That is what is wonderful about this country. FREEDOM OF CHOICE. But everyday we have more and more freedoms and choices takin away because people like Ms Babcock don't understand the meaning of freedom of choice. They also don't understand the meaning of tolerance which is why our freedoms are one by one being takin away. Tolerance helps us to overlook and accept other peoples beliefs and choices that are not in sync with our own. It gives us the common sense to turn the page, or walk away, or ignore something that might be offensive to us instead of trying to change the world to only think one way!
If we as parents would not only preach, but practice tolerance, there would be worldwide peace! Or we could continue to allow people who feel only their opinion counts to turn a non denominational newspaper (or world) into hundreds of little "sections and circulars" so that we can pick and choose which sections don't offend us. Then eventually they can advance to bigger things and just rid the world of people who they don't agree with. Isn't this the reason we are at war? They don't like the way Americans live? Worship? And just as we have loved ones fighting in another country to defend us, I am trying to defend my brothers here by trying to explain tolerance, and maybe another war will be stopped. You know, the one we are setting our children up to fight by not preaching tolerance to them. Allowing them to think that the only one who matters is yourself.
Chris Hammond
North Hopewell
I agree. So its not your cup of tea... GET OVER IT! Typical American these days, I don't like something... I'm going to wine and cry about it. People like you are the reason America is the way it is these days. Can't do this it will piss that person off... Can't do that either or it will piss this person off... Grow some skin people. Teach you children to tolerate difference in the world not to fight it.
I am in complete agreement with Gwen Babcock's letter. Clearly she is concerned about her daughter's well-being, so if she plans to continue to live in York County she needs to do what I do with my four-year-old: make sure she doesn't see the newspaper during deer season. The BEST course of action she could take if she is REALLY concerned about her daughter is to get OUT of York County. As long as she lives here her daughter will continue to be exposed to the unevolved Neandrathals that inhabit this region of the country. Most of these people aren't even human-they are an unidentified breed of individuals whose brains have not evolved past the cro-magnun period. If any of them had ever travled OUTSIDE of this area, they would know this.
I don't know which America everyone else is living in. The America where I find myself is one where no one has a right to free speech or to their opinion; someone will cry foul.
There was a time when Americans said "I don;t agree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it". Now they say, "You can't say that so you're fired."
I long for the days of mutual respect and consideration. Where did they go?