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Hair Weave Stopped Up Toilet
Sunday, August 8, 2010
At What Age Should I Take My Dog To The Beach
Like most of the English, including Catalan, the spectacle of bulls I've always been quite indifferent, ie, has never aroused my interesting enough to waste my time going to a bullfight. Therefore, as the vast majority of the population of this country, I know that the spectacle of bulls is just spectacle and entertainment to a minority. And this means that if someone calls me from Madrid, confused by the latest to warn me that in Catalonia and we can not celebrate bullfights, I have no choice but to respond with irony and regret: "It's true!, and I thought to raise my children in the art of bullfighting!, what do I do now?! ".
Another very different thing is that, beyond our borders, this art, this "activity" for whom seems absurd to call it even art, has excelled precisely why I have as conspicuous and distinct in relation to other peoples of Europe or the world. When I lived in the United States, more than one and more than two came to wonder, perhaps precisely because there knowledge of the world and its history is rather limited among the middle class, if my country men dressed daily by the street the costume. Such absurdities as well as provoke laughter, are only part of the inevitable association of clichés and archetypes that we associate with cultures that we know very little. Imagine all the Chinese laboriously piled into giant planters and textile workshops or the Japanese practicing karate in a beautiful garden or the Russians dancing squatting and drinking vodka like water. Anyone who thinks, of course, knows that there is a lot more, but the first image survives because it has strength.
In Spain, for the pride of a few others and humorous lament hilarity of the majority, particularly the bull and the bull and make some English with him, has become a symbol that transcends borders. The aliens themselves, when they come to our country to know and see that not all costume dress, who did not have a bull tattooed on his arm or horns on his head (well, some surely :-) yes, we return like a mirror that image of ourselves, we know partial and unfair, but we also amused by his ignorance and naivete.
And then, beyond the symbol of their minority status within their importance exaggerated and abroad, someone comes to ask whether law we do to these animals. It is normal that the question arises, it is normal that societies evolve, it is normal transform their morale, their concerns change. But the laws, as a concept that restricts, as mutually agreed obligations for society, but should also, of course, conform to the morality of the time, must always slyly from behind. Explain what I mean a simple example.
only twenty years ago (1990) almost no one at home recycled anything. For my mother, 63, is still a condition that decreases its activity in the kitchen for my father, who comes into the kitchen to sniff and know what goes, what she eats, it's recycling is a solemn nonsense a pijada of these times. But Cristina and me, we drink and the ideas of this new century and we caught the fear of changing climate and surrounding environment, recycling is a task we do with concern and that we needed. How necessary?, Should it be force our neighbors, everyone, including people like my parents to do?, should it be fine or even imprison those who do not? I suppose the answer here, for many, is not simply because our moral, the present, has not evolved to the point of considering a damage done to the environment is worthy of such punishment. But perhaps my children, within 30 or 40 years if world conditions have become unsustainable, whether as a result there have been epidemics, famine and disasters that have taken millions of lives ahead, maybe my children then see perfectly logical and absolutely necessary to consider that a person does not recycle, which pollutes daily and does not contribute in their environmental obligations, should go to jail or pay large sums to reverse their misdeeds. What law or penalty would apply in such a society then move towards an arsonist who has a habit of burning the few remaining forests on the planet?. Some prison will surely appear soon. Besides this, the society of my children, their moral advanced wonder why we did not and so in our time, why the generation of their parents allowed to be burned thousands of hectares of forest land to devote to building housing and income of their parents, how it was say- which did not impose laws that prohibit and punish severely those crimes against the environment. And the answer is clear: the company needed to evolve, that my children were born and to propose such legislation, the casts and we were to accept that my parents, far away from this earthly world, could not oppose them or suffer for them, by laws that do not understand or would understand in his moral obsolete.
laws should always support the moral and ethics of a time, but we must understand that every time there is not one but several generations, several mental or moral, and the latest, most reformers, the work will make changes while the former, conservative, deny. As the laws should apply to everyone, without exception, the society as a whole must achieve a broad consensus before making them mandatory for every citizen, especially when it comes to laws that forbid, not allow (no one is aware that it would not be allow himself naked on the beach in bathing suits to ban it.) Between the two verbs, between permitted and forbidden, there is only one word more, one that allows survival to avoid the first and second, to educate.
Catalan society is a society in Spain tends to be a pioneer in modern, comprehensive and moral transformation, it was in the nineteenth century, it was in days of the republic and certainly well remains, after the long break, for all of Spain-of
where the problem lies and I hope my friends Catalans not be misleading: an anti-bullfighting initiative that we respect and even many citizens would endorse an initiative that will be consolidated and growing and gaining popularity over the years, as we go further educating generations respect for the environment has become the Catalan parliament, by virtue of nationalist ideas that we all know they do exist there, which are vital for the maintenance of several nationalist parties and their chiefs-in a ban too early without the necessary consensus, from a growing minority (bullfighting) to isolate other dwindling minority (taurine), while most people still waiting to receive what is rightfully yours: education, information and knowledge to make evolve their morale before seeing imposed by law.