Having an opinion

I completely forgot to make my post last Thursday! So Sorry you get it today and another Thursday yeah! I learned something I will never forget last week. We were talking about if cultures are more valid that others. So of course my automatic response was "of course not every culture is equal!" being not only American but also being LDS I have been taught my whole life not to judge and in this country we are a giant melting pot anyway!

However a point was brought up that I had never thought about before. What does the word validation really mean? One definition from the dictionary is "producing desired results". From an Lds cultural stand point our culture is families, getting married and having a loving marriage and birthing and rearing children in the gospel to become sound adults who make an impact on society, and try to do our best to become like that Savior. But of course we are all human and make mistakes so it doesnt always turn out that way. So if I use that mark as "the desired mark" for society are there cultures that more succeed at reaching this mark? ABSOLUTLEY!

Now the LDS culture isn't the only one that tries to meet this mark of a good society others do as well. But it got me thinking that it is all in the eye of the beholder on which culture is more valid than others. Someone else might look at a culture and think it is more valid because it reaches more of there expectation of what a culture should be. And it takes a whole new spin on things that I actually felt that I COULD have an opinion on this subject.

I feel that in this day and age when tolerance for everything is so high its hard to have an opinion on anything! Not a supporter of gay marriage? Your homophobic. Against abortion? You're infringing on peoples rights to choose. I mean it seems like the tables have turned when it comes to a lot of things. That if you are against something that you are a bad person. I know I'm not a bad person and I don't hate the people that support these things I just dont agree with their opinion and thats okay. I dont criticize you for what you believe so show me the same respect. It was just refreshing to pull back and say "yeah you know what in my opinion my culture is more valid that other cultures and heres why and these are the facts".