Saturday, June 07, 2008

What's Wrong With This?

You narrow-minded prudes, loosen up. Be more like the open, honest Europeans.
A major German newspaper admits it ran a naked photo of a 13-year-old girl on its front page as part of a contest to find the country's "hottest summer girl."
Imagine the USA Today posting something like that. That would be OK, right? I mean, why not? In a nutshell, this is what's wrong with a secular society. With no fixed first principles (the Bible, the Koran, etc.) from which to derive morality, there is no reason why this isn't OK.

If I were a Moslem living in Europe, I would do exactly what they're doing - not assimilate and keep my own culture. All around me, a dying race thrashes about in an orgy of self-gratification that is totally at odds with my faith. You better believe I would keep to my own kind.

10 comments:

Justin said...

You prude! You probably have problems with that new show about "the lifestyle" that's supposed to be on CBS too...

:)

Amy said...

Surely it depends upon what enviroment the photograph displayed was taken.There can be photos that simply display the innocence and beauty of the human form,just as well as photographs that are created to sexually entice.It is the "borderline" between the two which is the important issue.Trouble in life is the view of the majority is distorted by having to pass rules to protect from the behaviour of the minority.But Americans need always remember,European culture is tried and tested since the times of Alexander the Great.That of the US is only 2 or 3 centuries old.

Anonymous said...

My son's are 11 and 13, and I actively volunteer there. As such I know many girls at that age. There is no innocence in photographing a 13 year old girl naked to find the hottest girl of summer

This isn't showing the beauty of the human form. It's child pornography.

Amy, you are wrong. Period.

Rose said...

Except that their own culture includes honor killings, acceptance of beheadings of women whose crime was walking with a man other than a husband or father... (yes, Afghanistan is the extreme, but honor killings happen everywhere.) Except that their culture allows girls to be stoned to death, and the males rarely if ever see any repercussions...

There's morality and then there's morality.I don't buy the argument that they are more moral than us, not in any what shape or form.

Not excusing the photo, by the way...

Anonymous said...

what the hell! whats next?

Kelly the little black dog said...

It isn't just Europe. Having no children - I blame the parents. ;) At least Miss Manners has some sense.

K T Cat said...

Amy, that is the moral relativism that leads to the largest newspaper in Germany exploiting 13 year old girls for sexual amusement.

It's just wrong.

European culture has changed quite a bit in the last few centuries. I doubt their ancestors would recognize most of it now.

Anonymous said...

I'm a little puzzled: what you wrote seems to me to imply that you think that the Muslims are more offended by the nude 13-year-old than by the nude >18-year-olds that the paper normally runs. I though that they were offended by the nudes, period?

Wollf Howlsatmoon said...

Rose....right. And as an aside, I can see you "keeping to your own" KT. Or keeping your moral compass.

I'm more than fine with that.

You don't kill people for making light of your G-d.

K T Cat said...

Tim, I wouldn't want my daughter posing nude for a magazine or newspaper no matter what her age. I wouldn't want yours doing it, either.