Pedophiles are still hunted and prosecuted, I wonder how soon that too will be remembered as "the bad old days" when people were unaccepting? Now this from Taki's Magazine:
SOMERVILLE, Mass.—Under its new domestic partnership ordinance, the city of Somerville now grants polyamorous groups the rights held by spouses in marriage, such as the right to confer health insurance benefits or make hospital visits. —New York Times, July 5, 2020
Maybe soon nothing will be illegal. I mean, people want to defund the police. Why bother with police if any and all human behavior is acceptable, at least to some?
Burn down a police station? Sure. Sex with animals? Why not? Sex in public as a performing art? We're almost there now. How about sadists actually tearing up masochists as entertainment? How long before we go there?
Why not gladiatorial games with real deaths guaranteed, blood on the sand? We simulated the heck out of this in Game of Thrones. How about suicidal people selling tickets to their auto de fe'? Or maybe arranging in advance to donate all one's organs and dying peacefully on the operating table as one is disassembled?
All behavior now seems okay, but we're cracking down on opinions, on speech. We've learned to call that crackdown "cancel culture."
You can do anything, but you sure as blazes can't say anything. "Saying" or "writing" are acts with which you need to be darned careful if you have a job or position in society to lose.
Our society is becoming too weird; ideas are dangerous, behaviors aren't. Behaviorally the libertarians have won, ideologically we're in the grasp of Puritans. Time was when the exact reverse was true, and frankly that time made more sense, at least to this old guy.
