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female
age
30-35,
Annalisa
writes:Dear friends, yet another murder demands the front page of every news-paper in England. On Facebook, I've been invited to join a group against knife crime, where people try to come up with ideas to stop all this terror and blood shed.Meanwhile, I switch to Dear Cupid and read questions and answers about teen-age sex, HIV, unwanted pregnancy, people looking for incestual sex... What the hell is happening to our society?The world was never perfect, but at least people used to have some moral guide lines!People used to hear about criminals being sentenced to life in jail and forced labour, and shuddered in horror at the thought of crime. These days, all you hear is the crime and we all get scared into thinking the world is full of danger, that we criminals are dangerous foes that lurk in dark corners of rough areas. Young people are beginning to think it's normal to carry a knife for self-protection, that they should use it, should they get into fights. That's how the human mind works, at that age! Teen-age sex proves it: teen-age sex used to be seen as wrong, but as it happened, the British government decided it would be best to lower the age of consent to 16... Now, 16 year old virgins think they are freaks of society. What about teaching our youth the consequences of immoral behaviour? When criminals eventually make it to jail, they now get short sentences to spend lazing about, reading, watching tv, exercising, they get opportunities for sex with their partner and when they finally make it back to the real world, they're welcome with a nice council flat (or a house, if they have kids!), they get fincial support, councilling and compassion by sicial workers. As I've heard several ex-convicts say (on the train, on the way home from jail), honesty doesn't pay as much as crime. We need to stop suffering in silence and tell people when they're wrong. Choice is a God-given human right, but you can't please everybody, not every thing we want is right for us and for others. When people do things against the welfare of others, they should be punished and set as an example, so others might be encouraged to learn from them and act differently.Enough with being victims of society and the media! We are part of this world, our actions and reactions count and affect others: our society is us, we control the media with the way we react to them.This is nothing but another rant on the web, but I hope it gets us thinking a little about the way we live our lives.God bless us all!Love,Annalisa.
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reader, LazyGuy  + ♥, writes (11 July 2008):
 You really need to read up on history. Respect for human rights? How long ago was it when your sex was second class? When people were slaves because of their skin color? When millions were send to the gas chamber for having the wrong faith?
That doesn't happen anymore in Europe at least so whatever we been doing we been doing something right.
As for sex, have things really changed all this much? At least now women have more then two choices (hooker or wife) when it comes to earning a living. Was it better when girls who had sex could be locked up?
Read up on history, real history, and the past looses a lot of its gleam.
And stop seeing the present through the eyes of the media. You don't sell newspapers with headlines "all is well". You get them from telling that 50% of teens have sex before they are 18 and NOT by saying 50% of teens wait till they are 18 or older to have sex.
Read this site, for every teen wanting to have sex there is someone past 21 who wonders if still being a virgin is going to turn a future partner off.
This world we have now is far from perfect but it is a lot better then any generation has had before.
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