After a judge has suggested that the first four commandments of the Ten Commandments should be dropped because they are too religious, we have the media trying to distinguish what is right and wrong. In reality, what has begun to happen is the line of morality has been blurred. Right has become wrong, wrong has become right, and extremism has taken hold under the weight of trying to determine where the line truly is.
Our children must have parental permission to receive an aspirin from the school nurse because of zero-tolerance rules, a child can be suspended for merely drawing a picture of a gun because of zero-tolerance rules, and if a child acts too much like a kid then all kinds of psychological testing and mind-control drugs come into play. Yet, a parent can't sneeze wrong, or else the child protective services wing of big government will swoop down and take the child.
Of course there are extreme cases. Recently, a child was sun-burned because of a parent's bad decision to place the child in a tanning bed with her. Rightly, the mother received some kind of scorn for the lack of common sense. But was it enough to take the child away?
Now for the extreme nonsense. . .
Fashion retailer H&M has come under fire for featuring a deeply tanned model in their latest swimwear campaign, sparking outrage from the Swedish Cancer Society for promoting tanning as a fashion accessory.
"The clothing giant is creating, not least among young people, a beauty ideal that is deadly," the group wrote in an opinion piece in the Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Thursday, AFP reported. "Every year, more people die in Sweden of [skin cancer] than in traffic accidents, and the main cause is too much sunning."
H&M released an apology almost immediately.
How long before the government decides to regulate how tan we are allowed to get? How long before the reformers demand an end to tanning salons? All in the name of good intentions.
Of course common sense dictates that we tan in moderation, but the liberal left doesn't think individuals can reason that way.
Just another way the liberal media and liberal ruling elite want to try to adjust your behavior, because you can't be trusted to protect yourself from too much tanning.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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