I Am Going to Say Something Controversial

There are disfunctional families and abusing parents, but I will always support family.

There are inconsiderate and abusing teachers, but I will always support education.

There are pedophile priests, but I will always support Catholic Church.

There are bloodsheds and conquers my country did, but I always support my country.

Nobody is perfect, and every institution has its rotten apples, but also thousands of good people whose performance never gets headlines in our scavenging media.
Institutions have existed during centuries for a reason.

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novembermoon · 51-55

Bad apples there will always be. And I choose to send the boy to a Catholic school because I believe the values of the ancient missionary are a bulwark against the competitive times we live in today. The paedophiles should be dealt with severely, both for the deeds they have done and for tarnishing the reputation of Catholicism. But at the end of the day, the church is an institution of God and we must respect it.

Cierzo · M

@novembermoon Exactly. Punish them severely, expel them from an institution they are harming, and they do not deserve to belong to.

But if family, school, church...have existed for centuries, it shows people need them, and nothing better has been found to fill that need. So they deserve some respect, instead of the vanity and ignorance of those who have lived 20 or 30 years on this planet and think they know better than dozens of past generations.