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Politeness isn’t Consent.

 It’s nice to be kind, but just because we are kind to someone doesn’t mean that we give them our consent. Nobody likes to be a doormat and sometimes confrontation is needed to see actual change in society and in others. I’m not saying don’t be nice, but when we consent to everything we are denying ourselves of the happiness that can be ours as human beings. We live in an age of consent and if we are not careful our rights could inflict damage on other people’s freedom to be released from our concern. 


Some people want the freedom of being free from other’s concerns, and as strange as that is, we need to respect people’s freedom to choose. It’s only when I don’t give my consent to a particular relationship that that person in turn must respect my rights as an individual. What is at stake is individual rights or individuality. Oppressive things can happen in a society where someone who wants to be free from the concern of others begins to behave in a way that is oppressive. When this kind of bullying happens it needs to be brought out into the daylight, so everyone else can see the dysfunction of that group or person, or leader of a group, so the oppression will stop. 


Sometimes people’s desire to be free from the concern of others is selfish in the sense that they have no desire to change or heal themselves, therefore we should be warned about such people, as to avoid sinning. The method we use to demonstrate that someone is acting unkindly may not be accepted by some, if those people are committing the same kind of oppression. Hence when we are unrepentant of sin, it spreads in a society that encourages oppression. 


When societies or people develop practices and laws that are against the natural thriving of the individual person or a community’s dogma, the people who are strengthening unnatural laws should be made to see that the damage they are inflicting on themselves and on other people is wrong. Although they may want to be free from the concern from other people, they are not free from the concern of their own conscience or their mortality. This awareness should lead them to repent, and accept a more proper way, therefore consent to the ways they are inflicting pain on other people and possibly their families should be resisted. Until the individual who wants to be free from the concern of others can demonstrate that they are actually better off in that state morally, we should still consider our actual concern over this persons soul, who will still be acting in oppressive ways until they change. This is Mike.


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