I can’t even remember what pushed me over the edge to write this blog post. I think it was a book I read – extra bus time means extra reading time – but I’m not sure. Anyhow, I just got to thinking about some of the bizarre double-standards and hypocrisy prevalent in modern society.
So if they say a picture’s worth a thousand words, this’ll be my wordiest post ever. Note: while the general flow of this is a point-counterpoint series of pix, there are a few that just stand alone. I am okay with this.
Illegal (it’s an “eyesore”):
Legal:
Magazine deemed inappropriate for children:
Magazines commonly sold at “eye-catching height” in grocery store checkout aisles:
Government-approved as “safe” food supplies:
Products sold at the same place we go to buy medicine and other products for our “health”:
Food sold in hospital waiting rooms:
Things that are not allowed on television:
Things that are acceptable to put on television, at virtually any hour:
Supposedly provokes youth violence:
Content/substance whose value and impact is never questioned:
Genocides we recognize:
Genocides we ignore:
People we pay over $10,000,000 for a few months worth of work:
People we pay, on average, about $40,000 per year:
Things covered by most health insurance companies:
Things that make someone “uninsurable” by most health insurance companies:
People whose rights are well-protected by the Constitution:
People whose rights are not protected by the Constitution:
Intolerable, non-democratic regimes:
Tolerable, non-democratic regimes:
Substance which causes mood changes, yet has no known negative side affects, but is deemed illegal to consume in any quantity:
Substances which cause mood changes, are known to cause violence/death (respectively), but are deemed legal to consume in any quantity:
sigh.