All yesterday I couldn't help but wonder how all the whingers would respond if an alien invasion by gender neutral beings from another planet with technology beyond our wildest dreams and diseases beyond our genetic capabilites came to earth and conquered us. Would they be grateful for the advanced technologies? Or would they complain about their gender neutrality, their cultural practices, their alien diseases?
I dont have a horse in the Australia day race, its just another day to me, but I always enjoy the fanaticism it stirs up in people, and their dogmatic rigidness when it comes to contemplating levels of complexity they have never had the misfortune of suffering.
It's a bit like not caring about cruelty to animals. Most of the permanently miserable dont want to be seen to go on record approving of it, so they will call out cultures that eat dogs in order to sound caring. But we all know that if the animals get in the way of progress, or can be wrapped in plastic portions that don't look cute, and taste nice, they don't mind so much about a bit of inhumane treatment.
These are the people who hate it when a woman speaks out of turn or an aboriginal shows disdain for our "generosity".
Humans really are a funny old species. I sure hope the aliens that inevitably come, whether they be Martians or Angels from the almighty, treat everyone with the same level of kindness that they treated their fellow beings with.
As a Christian leaning society, it would be appropriate.
