We teach
our children it is all right to tell lies by doing it ourselves. We teach
them that acts of killing and violence
are all right from the movies they watch and the video games they play, perhaps
even enjoyable. We teach them that war is all right from the wars we fight at
home or abroad. We teach them that divorce is all right from our own divorces
or multiple divorces whichever the case might be. We teach them that
extra-marital affairs are all right from our own extra-marital affairs, thus ensuring the continuity of the cycle of
life as we know it, perhaps even to the extent of going to war to defend it,
this godless lifestyle of ours which our children grow up believing to be
'normal'.
This is
just the tip of the iceberg.
What about
pornography? What about prostitution? What about gambling? What about
narcotics, all of which we permit to flourish by fair means or foul?
We teach
our children it is all right to break traffic rules, and when we get caught,
that it is all right to bribe traffic cops into looking the other way.
We teach
our children it is all right to poison our lungs with tobacco smoke and livers
with alcohol, not overnight of course but in the long run, by being exemplary
role models in these areas, and we teach them that when they pay the price in
the form of lung or throat cancer or cirrhosis of the liver twenty years down the road that it is one of those 'normal' illnesses 'normal' people fall victim to
all the time, depending on one's luck or the roll of one's dice - fate as some
might call it.
Good
teachers, are we not?
