07-01-2009, 02:13 PM
wths74 Wrote:This isn't 200 years ago and this isn't another culture. A 40 something year old man does not sleep in a bed with little boys. This isn't a vacation gone bad or some natural disaster where they are forced to sleep together, Michael had a huge mansion with tons of bedrooms. What he did was wrong and bringing up other cultures or what happened hundreds of years ago doesn't help your argument. He was a sick person to do that and when asked during a interview why he did it he replied "to share the love". That my friend is not normal.
Maybe Michael Jackson did have sinister motives with the children he "slept" with but then again maybe he did not. We really don't know for sure, do we?
I try to be careful with the use of that word "normal". I contend that merely sleeping with another person is not bad nor is "sharing love" a bad thing or wrong. I also contend that, in general, we westerners have been conditioned to believe (unreasonably) that such behavior is somehow wrong. Is it the bed or bedroom that makes it so wrong? If a child and an adult fall asleep on a sofa would it be "sick"? How about "sleeping together" in an airplane? Is sleeping together with another adult "sick" or does it make you gay? Is it the ages of the people involved that make it "sick"? Is it the bonding and closeness that sleeping together promotes really what we fear to the degree that we label it "sick"? Maybe I just don't associate sleeping with sex like some others do. Maybe the moral breach in this all lie only in the eyes of the beholder? It's almost the same thing as nudity. We have been conditioned to think nudity is somehow bad. How absurd. It's partly the fault of that religion crap but we also need to try harder to step outside the boxes we are prisoners of and try to see things from a different perspective. I know I don't like being a THOUGHT PRISONER. I try not to be whenever possible. Our culture needs to GROW UP.