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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Halloween, carnival etc are days to reverse the social order and make fun of things. Parody, satire, lampooning are part of the human spirit. It seems really sad to do away with a very non harmful part of the human experience. FWIW don't know a lot of scar masks that are to make fun of people who are disfigured. Some scary and non scary pop figures are scarred...I can think of very few honestly who are incredibly disfigured? Should we also go after witches with big noses and warts, because some people have big noses and warts?[/quote]

We get it.  You don't have compassion or interest in other perspectives.  You don't care if something you do is insensitive.

The whole point of many of these perspectives is to alert people like you that what you deem "non harmful" may not be considered "non harmful" by others.

But you just go ahead and keep walking around with your head up your butt.[/quote]

I know quite a few fundamentalist Christians who would agree with you that Halloween should basically be abolished.  They want us all to sit around praying all day.  You want us to sit around going "ahh... poor thing!" all day.  Both of you have a very strong desire to police the behavior of others.[/quote]

Yes and until they start getting governments to ban things then they are allowed to not participate and can state their opposition.

But maybe you don't believe in free speech.[/quote]

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