(09-04-2016, 09:37 PM)taramarie Wrote: It was certainly not self absorbed to give people more civil rights like for women such as myself. Heck even men as they can now go into jobs that were considered "women's work" back in the day. They gave us more freedom culturally. People who want to go back to older days when a mans place was ...... or a woman's place was ..... are insane and will hopefully die off. I will not have my rights taken away from me. People should be allowed to do whatever they wish. It is not self absorbed to give equal rights to people. You are just seeing it through the eyes of a child who went through it at the worst possible time. But the result meant future generations could enjoy that freedom. I am seeing it through the eyes of a child who experienced it after the dust had settled and i could enjoy more freedom than what earlier generations had experienced and I deeply appreciate it.
Choices have consequences and they are not always good. For what you see as good coming from the Awakening there were even more negative consequences. Maybe in New Zealand it may have played out but that isn't true in the US. For one thing the Boomers flat refusal to understand economic consequences is still playing out. I suspect that choices will become more constrained as the last fifty years of fiscal mismanagement land on our heads. The Boomers will refuse to accept any responsibility and demand that we pay for their retirement.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises