I always wonder, what do people think about when they on a moving vehicle alone.
Be it in a train, driving home alone or simply as the passenger heading to your next stop.
More often than not, I tend to wander my thoughts around and think about things that don't usually cross my mind.
When you're living in a city, sometimes it's pretty difficult to just sit down and think. We're forever rushing here and there. Rushing to meet your friends, rushing to your next class. But how frequent do we just sit back and think?
My recent moral education class got me thinking while i was sitting in the back of a car.
According to the Principle of Existentialism ( by Jean-Paul Sartre ),
A man is free to do whatever he/she wants to. As long it doesn't harm the society and does not cross the "law border" of course.
Most of the students had agreed on that. But to my amazement, I was surprise to find out that most of them do not agree on homosexual.
I was confused as wouldn't it contradict to what they have agreed previously?
If one is allowed to do whatever he or she wants, why can't they date whoever they wish to?
I find this extremely disturbing as I was stunned by the fact the majority of the students does not have an open mind on this.
And this is the new generation we're talking about.
If the moral value that is trying to imply to us is that we're supposed to have an open mind, why can't the same thing be applied to homosexual? Why should we discriminate homosexual?
What are the major difference between them and us except for the fact they have the guts to stand up and tell the world they prefer to date someone of the same sex?
It's a bolt in the blue for me when our lecturer told me that homosexual actually can't find a job because no one would hire them and they would have to work at night!
Because of what?
Because we, the today's society, decided that homosexual is so abnormal from us that we have to discriminate them!
But lets not forget the moral value that were discussed earlier.
We, man is free to do whatever we want as long as IT DOES NO HARM TO OTHER PEOPLE.
So let see, does being a homosexual harm us in any direct way?
One of my friends argued with me and said that, "yes, of course! Because it influences the society! "
But in what way, does being a homosexual influences the society?
They do not walk around in streets and promote it.
They are just simply being themselves.
If you are concern that because being a homosexual might be in high chance of getting AIDS, but why aren't you concern the rate of the babies are dumped every year?
Those people do not practice safe sex as well!
Does that mean the issue that babies are being dumped everywhere ( public toilet, rubbish dump) is less concerning than AIDS?
And then there's those who said it's against the mother nature!
But who set the rules about being homosexual is wrong?
Years ago, in some country like china, practising cohabitation deserves a death penalty.
Back then, doing that was so called against the mother nature.
But in today's world, we see couples moving in every so often.
But why don't we discriminate them?
Why do those people still deserve a job and not work at night?
It's true that homosexual can't produce an infant. But what do we do when the so called normal people is infertile?
They adopt!
So why can't homosexual adopts if they want to?
Why do we have to be the one to discriminate them because they are slightly different from the rest of the world?
Isn't this why human beings are special?
We tend to have the ability the adapt to changes and be versatile.
Isn't each individual supposed to be different?
Why do we, human beings discriminate human beings?
How do we define a normal people and an abnormal one?
Why can't yin be with yin and yang be with yang?
* All written above is strictly based on the writer's opinion. 

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sitting Back of A Moving Vehicle.
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