"Cheryl" wrote in message
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D Mahoney wrote:
I don't understand why any decent person, who doesn't harm anyone,
should ever get negative media attention - regardless of appearance,
intelligence, or any other noteworthy features or talents. The kind
of cruelty she's had to endure is inexcusable. If her singing were
less impressive, that wouldn't have made it more excusable.

Unfortunately society as a whole is deplorably insensitive and cruel. It
seems that as time goes on our society becomes less and less civil.
"Common sense" and "common courtesy" are both very UNCOMMON commodities.
The more I see of society, the more I appreciate my cats.

Dan

Society is simply humans. Human nature has some rather nasty aspects that
we have to be trained out of. Some societies develop rules of behaviour or
moral codes that strongly repress the innate tendency of humans to
emphasize how much they're part of their group, or that they're 'normal",
by attacking anyone who is different, unusual, weak, or in some other way
'not one of us'.

Our society seems to be moving more and more away from even trying to
treat everyone as a human being; from even arguing or teaching that people
should do so. Look at the popularity of a lot of the reality shows which,
from the little I've seen, are actually designed to encourage people to
mock and abuse others.

It's not in the least surprising that Susan Boyle was treated the way she
was. Everyone who buys the papers and watch the shows that set people up
to be publicly humiliated after luring them in with promises of fame and
fortune participates in a system that's bound to hurt people.

Cheryl

You can thank the progressives, and their *no values - no morals* agenda
being pushed on kids starting in grade school...