Letters to the Editor
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@Two letters: Pretty Lady and Sandy Yago
Beautifully said Pretty Lady:
Can you not see that a person may take action upon the dictates of conscience, and that conscience may not always dovetail with the law, and that fact is one of the most unique and precious virtues of humanity? Without conscience we would all be mindless automatons.
And from the automaton point of view we have Sandy Yago:
An activist is a person who wants to change something very specific in MY world whether I want it or not. That alone makes activists sort of unlikeable people, in whom arrogance and selfishness is combined with a single issue zealotry.
I am not against opening eyes, but eye-openers (iconoclasts, rebels, etc) want to change something in my world while persuading me to join in and want the change together with them.
Actually an activist wants to change something in "the" world although I'm pleased that you highlighted for us your egocentic view by capitalizing "my" while in the following sentence excoriating the activists for their "arrogance and selfishness".
That's as telling as your equating "thousands of years of selective breeding and hybridization" with genetic engineering done in the lab while condeming the activists "ignorance".
By the way, when has an activist asked you to "join in and want the change together with them"?