I will not go into details of what has happened here - because everyone who needs to know the thing already knows the entire process, and reiterating that thing would be meaningless and pointless, not to mention frustrating and irritating. (And by the way, if you have no idea of what I am talking about here... I suggest that you stop reading because continuing reading would be a waste of your time) Pretending that everything is alright is the easiest thing on this planet; but it's not the cure. Ignorance isn't bliss; ignorance equals pain, which is exactly the reason that I am writing this entry. We can't just 'wish away' the things we would rather forget for our entire lives.
The point of matter remains that I am not entirely sure whether this is merely a matter of compromising with personal principles. What I am really seeing is a tendency – a tendency probably caused by social conditioning, to over-simplify the problems. There are certain rules that seem right at the moment; and the actions implied by those rules are ethically justifiable. Moreover, the fast-paced society today forces us to either accept the rule or else endure the unbearable pain, and given little time for consideration, we have no choice but to accept the rule, despite that we know that loopholes might be found here and there. Day by day those rules seem to have become more and more natural; gradually they become a part of our lives…
And one day we end up finding that those rules are actually incompatible with the structure of our lives. Or rather, what we think our lives should be. It's not until when the consequences of accepting those rules finally come crashing down upon us that we discover we're only meters away from the lurking monster's nest; and yet we cannot escape except by abandoning the very same rules that we've learned to rely on, rules that we've grown to trust, - and which have also brought us to the disaster.
Which is why most people choose to walk into the monster's nest rather than fleeing.
The fear of losing one's identity.
On one side of the balance is the pain of being a victim; on the other side of the balance is losing the identity. Without faith the latter one is far more hurting than the former one.
Yet the latter one, of losing (and eventually rebuilding) our identity, is the only morally sound option that we have. As long as we're willing to face the challenge boldly, there is nothing that we could not solve.
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But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk. Those who favor censorship should recall that one of the first books ever burned was the first English translation of the Bible. As President Eisenhower warned in 1953, "Don't join the book burners...the right to say ideas, the right to record them, and the right to have them accessible to others is unquestioned -- or this isn't America." And if that right is denied, at some future day the torch can be turned against any other book or any other belief. Let us never forget: Today's moral majority could become tomorrow's persecuted minority.
- Edward M. Kennedy, Truth and Tolerance
Bolding mine.