Let us take the blame
I read your article about New Zealand's degraded morality around sexual interaction (Whose culture needs to change?) in the Herald a moment ago. You are spot on. I share your values here it seems.
I too agree (Warriena Wright) needs to be considered responsible for where she willingly ends up, despite the good sense her parents probably tried to teach her.
I agree NZ Rugby being called upon to be some political body that should determine our players' private standards is rather ludicrous (though not particularly evil).
I agree the problems we are seeing are based on a self-centred and selfish generation that unfortunately includes quite a number of vocal, aged persons, if we're being honest - but most undoubtedly is being propagated by those younger than 40 and a bunch of MPs.
I feel you see a logic here, like me, that so many cannot see or wish not to accept. I suspect it is related to a latent desire in our people to not take responsibility or accept the logical consequences of poor decisions.
Just blame everybody else when things go wrong, or change the law so that those who love us and wish to guide us on a better path to enlightenment and freedom, one that requires effort on the subject's part, are criminalised in oblivion (a movement happening in the West in general).
I call much of the evil that sustains and facilitates this degradation 'social communism'.
Social communists, whose goal in life is to simply control people, for even just the self-gratification of it, have turned our youngest generation into a bunch of self-entitled brats who blame everyone else and take no responsibility.
This is because social communism doesn't want individuals to take responsibility - they'll take it for you.
They'll let you follow your hormones and submit to your vices, because it binds you up and holds you down.
How nice for them, I bet, when all their adherents are intoxicated, drugged, sexually tied up and in debt - makes for some easy voters next time to target.
Social communists also oppose those who, like you (and I, etc), call for people to actually take responsibility for their own lives, to avoid succumbing to logically unfortunate outcomes by way of addictive behaviours.
Social communists though, love a movement. It grants them another avenue to hijack people's hopes and dreams, and passions, all in the pursuit of control, again.
In summary, I hope your advice here is soaked up by our youth and such. And I hope that we don't see this call for individuals to take responsibility instead of hand it off get hijacked by those who just want control.
Because, I believe, it's the offer of control, the bid to take responsibility for us, that has made our youth so dim-witted in the first place.
If people take more responsibility for their actions and recognise the shadows and seedy dens aren't patrolled by the caring at night, we'll have less of our yet-to-mature wandering into inadvertent traps laid by lust, rampant hormones, addictions and the Jones (keeping up with Joneses?).
We'll have more stable households, maybe even families. We'll have more graduates, a clean and happy workforce, and just a better society.
Cheers to the idea that everyone can start taking some personal responsibility and adopt an paradigm that leads them, as independent individuals, to becoming a lot more Godly, you might say.
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