Simply can't resist.. [by julius.apweiler]
..feeding the flamewar here.
Disclaimer: I'm 18, and thus almost by definition a communist. Well, not exactly, but left-wing enough that any patriotic American will regard me as a communist. Sorry, have to restrain myself.
Therefore, let's begin with - I don't see what's so bad about the redistribution of wealth, but this is probably not a point we can argue about. I won't convince you and vice versa.
Well then, marriage as a legal contract. What a wonderfully romantic view of human relationships and love. But perhaps it's a good model anyway, I'll grant you that, helps explain some things. Though it seems to assume that we are all rational beings and think about all possible consequences before we jump into bed with someone. Of course. While in general, society (esp. law) is based on that assumption, you can see the exceptions. For example, in most places I know of, you can get pretty much off the hook even for murder if you can prove that you weren't able to think clearly. Besides, in Germany, there's such a thing as a 'marriage contract', which you sign *optionally* *in addition* to getting married, which contains rules about each one's behaviour. But I'm not an expert. Anyway, you're still right in that adultery is of course not right.
Now, for some of your other points. You seem unable to decide between modern views ('women should get their own job and their own money') and good old chauvinist social ideas ('who's going to spend the most time with the kids? The woman!')
I'll just briefly outline my view - total equality. Meaning that, in an ideal world (IMO), it'd be OK for only one partner in a marriage to have a paid job - the man *or* the woman; the other one stays at home with the kids (if there are none, the situation is different, but I'll stick with the kids-present case here), perhaps does (most of) the housework, etc etc. If they get a divorce - here I agree that this often goes wrong - as a general rule the kids stay with the one who stayed at home before; the working one keeps his/her job *and pays for the others*. Of course, other factors (not least the kids' preferences) have to be taken into account, but this sounds about right to me, because it *is* better for the kids to actually see their parents as much as possible. Of course, that also means that dad shouldn't work, like, 6 am to 10 pm, but 9-to-5 or something more flexible. One variant would be both parents working part-time, if it were possible to make enough money that way, or one full and one half while the kids are in school once they're old enough. And there *should* be daycare (as in, preferably, free) if both want to do full-time, but it shouldn't be neccessary. I'm not going to go into more detail (among other things, my views aren't fully formed in many ways and based on a gut feeling of what's 'right'), but you get the idea.
One other point: I don't get the feeling you love women; as your 'LoVe' implies, you love p******, and couldn't care less about the person around them. Of course, I'm exaggerating, but I do get the impression that, according to you, 'all women are just out to exploit men'.
*puts on asbestos suit*
Cheers, 'til the next rant. |
