Human Rights

Lazy Parasite

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I can’t praise our fantastic Swedish government enough for finding the way to make lazy parasites like myself start working. Just kick them while they’re lying down.

I’m suffering from chronic pain. Some years ago, I was seriously ill and ended up in hospital, with at best a few days to live, possibly just a few hours, according to the doctor who examined me. When I was, rather miraculously, saved, naturally I thought everything would be ok.

My doctor told me that my illness had taken several years to build up. That explained why I’d been so terribly tired in the past couple of years and also why I hadn’t been able to keep any food down the last couple of months before I was hospitalized in the nick of time.

I’m guessing you’re saying, fine, you’re healthy now, or close enough, so it shouldn’t be a problem getting a job now, you lazy parasite. Or something a bit more tactful? In any case, if so, you’re forgetting a tiny little detail, you valuable citizen.

Employers tend to be quite picky about two things – education/degree and work experience. Me, I was lying in bed, fighting for my life, while the rest of you were getting your degrees and out making money, feeling good about yourselves.

But hey, like I said, go on kicking me for a bit longer, and maybe someone will give me a job, despite everything. Who knows? Naturally, it’s worth a shot. Thank you so much, my dear government, for your kindness.

Discrimination Against Girls

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BBC News Asia

Relatively recently, I read that in some context or other, a Swedish woman had written that it wasn’t true that thirld world countries were discriminating against girls. The reason that we have so many adopted girls from the third world here, is because we want daughters so badly. In other words, no discrimination against girls in the third world, but discrimination against boys here.

That woman didn’t seem to have any scientific material to base her claim on. It looked as if it was merely her personal opinion, nothing more.

Anway, today, on BBC News Asia, I read about a report that was published recently. It comfirmed what I’ve been suspecting all along. Some children are born discriminated against, just because of their gender. Others aren’t even allowed to be born at all. Some people believe that as many as 100 million girls are killed before they’re even born. They’ve been deselected simply because they were girls, nothing more.

For those who are actually allowed to be born, the discrimination continues all through the life they are allowed to have. I’ve read elsewhere that these girls are pulled into this discrimination of other girls, by helping to kill unwanted daughters and grand-daughters.

My suggestion is that people in these countries should be allowed to choose, by using IVF. Let them pick out one or two healthy boy embryos and allow them to be born, but if they do, they shouldn’t have any say in what happens to the other embryos. Healthy girl embryos can be ‘adopted’ by couples and women who want another child. Perhaps women who are suffering from some kind of fertility problems, or ones who simply wish to do something to save these unwanted children.

I wouldn’t mind adopting a girl embryo from India or China if someone would offer that option.

If all this means that those cherished boys who get to stay in their own countries can’t hope to marry when they are grown up, their parents can simply blame themselves. The boys might be able to get used to ‘marrying’ other boys? In any case, you can’t keep your cake and eat it too.

If you don’t have to ‘waste’ resources on rearing unwanted girls, you can’t expect others to do so either, so that your beloved, spoiled, overweight son can marry. You can’t have one without the other.

This might sound a bit rough, but it is, in my opinion, considerably more humane than what is going on now. People are killing babies. In the future, that might be avoided, even if an entire generation, maybe more, of men will end up without female companionship.

One step down

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I read about the new report about the climate change. Not pleasant reading. Worst of all was that it still isn’t possible to get the big, rich countries to join the efforts to stop the change before it’s too late to save our world.

They still only care about making more and more money. Like a wise old Indian chief once said: you can’t eat money. Besides, do those big shots think they can take their riches with them when they die?

Even now, it’s pretty bad in the poorer countries. Take Jakarta for instance. That’s just one example. In the summers, there are forest fires – thick layers of smoke covering most of Asia and South America. It can even lead to an acceleration of the global warming.

Floods, landslides, droughts… When you hardly have anything even from the start, how will you manage when something like that happens?

This reminds of an image I’ve seen in one of my history books (I’ve studied history at the university and I’m really interested in the subject). The image is from the great depression – the late 1920’s or the early 1930’s.

Three men are standing on a ladder in a flooded basement – at least that’s the way it looks. On top of the ladder an upper class man is standing, a bit further down, there’s a middle class man and at the bottom a working class man. You notice they’re all men. In those days, women didn’t even count.

The upper class man says: Let’s all take a step down. Presumably he feels they can overcome the economic crisis that way. But – the working class man only has his head just above the water. What will happen if all three of them take a step down?

Let’s say that the upper class man is the richest countries of the world, and the working class man is the poor countries. If so, it’s exactly the way things are today. The upper class man thinks it will be great to get a little more sun. The working class man is already dying of heatstroke, drowning or is about to be crushed by a landslide.

Besides, if we – the middle class man – the medium rich countries – end up a step down on the ladder, won’t we be in the working class man’s situation? Head just above the water?

We do not want things to end up that way!!! It might be too late to stop the changes, but we can at least slow it down. If we’re going to make it in time, now is the time to start. Today. Think about that as you’re parking your second car in the garage.

Equalism

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It turns out some men (and a few women) aren’t too happy about the name feminism. One reason might be that it seems to be concerned with equality for women ‘only’. Another reason is that feminism as an ideology is quite old. In the 21 century we might need a new ‘ism’. How about equalism? It could include more ‘equality’ than the one between women and men. Equalism could also include all ethnic groups and non-human species as well.

All this can’t hide the fact that in many countries worldwide we might need some old-fashioned feminism to support the women who are being oppressed in the name of all kinds of old excuses.