Why I love my country

This is a school project. The kids brainstormed with the teacher about why they love USA.

"We have a special flag". Oh. You love USA because you have a special flag? Nice. Then you must love every other country in the world, because every country in the world has a special flag.

"We don't have slaves". Oh. That can be said of most countries in the world.

"We are free" - "We vote for our leaders" - "We have the things we need" - "There are neat places to visit" - that too goes for every modern democracy.

"We have people that keep us safe (police men, fire fighters)" 
If that's a reason why you love USA, keep paying taxes. But - that too goes for every modern democracy.

"We honor the people who have died for us." 
Er... how, precisely? Giving them a nice funeral, a memorial and a memorial day. While at the same time dishonoring people who had the bad taste of NOT dying. Vietnam veterans are classified as drug addicts, veterans speaking up against the despicable acts of USonian military, torture and illegal wars are classified as traitors and anti-American, and... yeah... military is being paid with tax funds too... So - refuse to pay taxes, refuse a veteran his pension. What the heck, he didn't die, so he can go and work, like all the decent people and stop leeching!

"Our country is BIG!"
Oh, yeah... You'd love Russia or China even more!
 
"You can see mountains, beaches, jungles and more in the USA". 
That is something unique for USA. But on the other hand, if your country didn't have "mountains, beaches, jungles and more", would you not love it?

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I love Finland because it's mine. It is the country I was born in. I love Finland because I'm Finnish. Because I love Finland, the sky is higher there than anywhere else... Because I love it, it's the most beautiful country in the world, even though it's small and doesn't have all kinds of amazing places. It has nice places to visit, though, beautiful places, amazing places, places worth seeing. Maybe I'm partial, but - I don't think I am. Every country has that. :-)

I love Finland, because I know Finland. I feel at home there. I feel accepted. I feel I belong. Finland is my mother. Finland is my home. Finland is the soil where my roots are. Finland is my origin.

There are all the other people who love Finland too, and I can share my love with them, the pride of achievements... and even though Finland is a small country with only few citizens, we have achieved a lot.
We made Finland independent and we have kept it independent for almost a century now. And we kept Finland independent against Russia... and as USA was fighting on their side, against USA too. No f-ing yankees in MY home country, and THAT is something to be proud of in today's world!

I love Finland, because Finland is a country one can be proud of. Of course we are not perfect, but there's more to be proud of than to be ashamed of. And most other people think Finland is a good place too.

Finns are creative, artistic, inventive, intelligent people. Hard-working people, fair, honest, courageous... Independent and ethical. You know the tree by its fruit and the country by its citizens. 

Things that make me glad

There's this guy who's into guns and survival and stuff, Republican, Usonian, and he has a board where he pins things that makes him think about his wife. And that board makes me just so silly happy :-D

Yes, he pins a lot of stuff that doesn't do it for me, like pink guns, camouflage gear and Southern stuff that only Southern Republicans understand. But there's a clear red - no, pink thread through everything, and it's so infused with his love of his wife, and how he knows her, and I am reminded of my husband *_*

It makes me SILLY BAT SHIT HAPPY!

Well done crafts. These wonderful people with their wonderful ideas.
Most people make me glad. I like people.
People who like to celebrate things. Even little things.
People who make an effort. I mean... I yap a lot about SAHMs, but quite a many of them actually make their kids' childhood a wonderful place, and that is wonderful.

Things I'm "allergic" to.

Disclaimer:

It's just my opinion. My pet peeves. My allergies. Nothing to do with you, even if you are on the list. Absolutely nothing. All to do with me.

So - now to things I'm "allergic" to.

USA.
There's so much of that all over the Internet. One cannot go anywhere without getting someone pushing the USonian pompous, arrogant, self-applauding, stuck-up... argh! - someone pushing USA down everyone's throat. And if you ask people to keep the noise down, they get offended and start accusing you of hating USA.
I didn't hate USA when I first came to the Internet, but now I'm not so sure.
(No, I don't hate USA. I hate the imperialistic, narcissistic, fascist, chauvinist, supremacist, fundamentalist bullies, and some USonians are exactly that. There's a lot of good in USA - among other things most of the USonians :-D - but also a lot of bad things. Just like with everything in the world. But - I'm not talking about the good, because I'm ranting about the things that irritate me. The good things don't.)

Especially when they are talking about 9/11. It was over 10 years ago. Get over it, already!
No, I will never forget - how I watched CNN when the first newscast came, how I called my husband and told him, and how he couldn't understand what I was trying to tell... I was among the people who watched in disbelief, live, how the other plane flew in the other tower... How small they looked. How I hurried to contact all my USonian friends, expressed my concerns and compassion in every social media and forum I was a member of, offered any help and support I could... I remember people carrying flowers and candles in front of all USonian embassies all over the world, almost more than for Princess Diana, and how all the world leaders expressed their condoleances...
and I will never forget how just in a couple of days the USonians were whining about how NOBODY cared, how EVERYBODY hated USA, how they ALWAYS had to take care of themselves by themselves, boohoo.
And I stopped caring. Fuck you too.
And now, every time I see anyone say anything about 9/11, I remember how the whole world's concern and compassion was brushed away, and I'm filled with ice cold contempt.

Or when they talk about the USonian imperialism, all the hundreds of wars, especially these last ones, that were 100% unnecessary - and illegal.
The only USonian soldiers defending USA, USonian freedom and USonians are those fighting on USonian soil. The second they step off that soil, they turn into attackers, aggressive, offensive, violaters of international laws, who are not doing anything worthy.
It was USA who attacked Iraq, not the other way around. You are not defending yourself, you are attacking other people!
It was USA who attacked Afghanistan, not the other way around. You are not defending yourself, you are attacking others!
YOU ARE THE OFFENDER VIOLATING OTHER PEOPLE'S PEACE, LIBERTIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY, YOU ATTACKING THEIR HOMES AND LIVES!
So don't come and tell me you are DEFENDING any of these things!

I have full respect of veterans, because THEY believed they were doing the right thing, because they are brainwashed to believe their superiors know what they are doing and are honorable men and women who would not send thousands of USonians to die for something unworthy, like money, power, prestige or other such things. Because I respect and appreciate veterans - I do owe my freedom to the Finnish veterans, and I will not forget that debt - it makes me angry that idiots are defending the assholes who sent these honorable, righteous and courageous people to sacrifice their lives and limbs for nothing.

I hate the USonian "patriots". No, not the USonians who love their country, but those nationalist chauvinists.
Those people who don't seem to realize that USA is not the whole world.
Those who get upset because I say "USonians" and not "Americans", because to me Americans are everyone native to the Americas, from Argentina to Canada.
Those who get offended because the recipes use metric system measurements.
Those who think you hate USA if you don't think Stars and Stripes is the most beautiful flag in the world, and other such things.
Who think "patriotic" is synonymous to USonians and "independence day" is synonymous to 4th of July. Who get offended when people don't know what's the USonian independence day, but couldn't mention any other nation's national day.
People who think words like "freedom" and "liberty" are Usonian, that the concept was invented by USA and that USA embodies these values.

Argh.

I am allergic to most Republicans, of Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh and Fox kind. I know not all Republicans are like that, but everyone saying that Obama is the worst president ever, whining about his birth certificate, say that he's a communist, enemy of USA, hates USA and other such crap, and trying every damn way to get rid of him, just because he's not Republican, those people make me see red.

I'm allergic to the arrogant, egocentric, fundamentalist Christians. Those people who believe everyone else is wrong and worshiping devils, who preach fire and brimstone and eternal condemnation over other people's "sins", but don't care one bit of their own. Those who think "God", "family values", "morals" and "inspirational" refer to Christianity, and Christianity alone. Those people who tell me I should be grateful because an imaginary person "died for my sins", and call me names because I'm faithful to my God.

Interestingly, 99% of these people are the same people...

But - I'm not ok with the "opposition" either.

I'm allergic to Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle and Dalai Lama, chakras and new age spiritualism, Hinduism and Buddhism, and people stealing spiritual ideas from Jews, Indians and Native Americans and claiming them as their own. I'm allergic to the fake "Kabbalah" and... Ugh. A lot of things. "Tantra", "healthy", "chakra", "ego", "hipster", "kale"...
Of course I'm not talking about these things in general, but the fascist fundamentalist ---s. People who believe to be better than thou because they are VEGAN.
And you know exactly how to say that word in this context.

Then there are the people who call anything healthy, just because it's healthiER than the "normal" option. Like "cookie dough dip" that's made with beans and brown sugar. It still has tons of sugar, but when I pointed that out, there were screaming health banshees yelling at me to go and stuff myself with something I don't even know what it is. I assume it's something equivalent to bacon maple syrup doughnut inbaked in cheesecaked and deep fried and then covered with chocolate, glazed with maple fudge and sprinkled with more bacon.
I responded that to me "healthy dessert" is an apple. No added sugar of any kind, no cooking, mixing, preparing and processing involved at all.

And this reminded me of the grand debate of Orthorexia. "Can healthy eating be labeled a disorder".
No.
Neither can banting. (= trying to lose weight)
But when "healthy eating" goes overboard, like banting when it becomes Anorexia, then you can talk about a disorder.
And this is something what these health banshees won't ever understand.
I found it hilarious that the most quoted and reposted opinion on the issue was by a guy who started screaming and foaming about how the government is mind-controlling people through MSG and gene manipulated crops and how people who are not orthorexic are sedated zombies... and not one of the idiots reposting this reacted. No, I got a lecture on how certain food can be lethal to people who are allergic to it, and how difficult life can be if you have are oversensitive to some foods.
Yes, I understand that. That is OBVIOUSLY NOT what Orthorexia means. And it doesn't mean either the fact that people are trying to eat healthier, better, watch out for "bad" things in their food, no. Don't eat MSG if you don't want to. Don't eat sugar. I would be so much better off if I could keep my mouth free of that stuff... No, Orthorexia is about people damaging themselves with their obsessive relationship to and ideas about food and food related issues.

And I'm allergic to anything Disney except the movies. I hate the merchandise and spinoffs and tv series and other such crap.

I'm allergic to artists like Thomas Kinkade, and I'm allergic to their fans. Especially their fans... One woman stated in exaltation that there has never been an artist as good and talented and amazing as Kinkade.
ROTFLMAO!

I hate "mother's love" clichés. Most of the mothers of the world are ordinary women, and in NO WAY different from all the other human beings on this planet. Then there are the people who declare all mothers to saints, and the mothers who so willingly listen to these people...
Really... poor people who have nothing but motherhood. No wonder they wear "my superpower is to make milk" shirts and the stupid "child in car!!!" banners on their cars. I mean... what are you supposed to think? "I'm usually reckless, but because I notice there are children in that car, I'm going to drive carefully from now on." Or? Stupid.

Children who are in love with themselves.
There was this boy who, when he got the camera to take pictures of anything, took pictures of himself. Nothing but himself.
I remembered another boy, who took photos of everything but himself. Those photos were amazing. He showed me the world through his eyes, and I saw things I hadn't noticed otherwise.
But I suppose the first boy showed me the world through his eyes as well. Being the only son in a fundamentalist Christian family of 6 makes you believe you are the world.

I'm allergic to rich people pretending to be "commoners", you know, like stay-at-home moms supported by their rich husbands making crafts and scrapbooking with Martha Stewart stuff .
I'm allergic to Martha Stewart too.
And Ann Romney saying she understands the "American woman" - even though the majority of USonians are actually Democrats and belong to the less fortunate 98%. No, Ann Romney has not worked one day in her life - or if she has, it wasn't because she needed to, like the most of USonian women. Ordinary USonian women don't own Olympic horses, and cannot send their children to boarding schools.
I'm allergic to all the rich bitches who pretend to be so crafty and artistic and creative and have Etsy shops selling expensive crap.
I'm allergic to people who have more than one bathroom in their houses, and who pretend to be "ordinary housewives".

I'm allergic to stupid people. I don't mean really stupid, but people who were given brains but have been taught not to use them, or are too lazy to. Willfully ignorant.People who see a picture of "pie pops" and start whining because there is no recipe.
What? IT'S NO F-ING ROCKET SCIENCE!
You make a miniature pie, using ordinary rolled pie dough or cookie dough,  by rolling it and cutting shapes with a cookie cutter. You put one of these shapes as the bottom of the pie, put in the filling, put in the popsicle stick, put in another shape on top as the cover of the pie, snip closed the edges, with fingers or a fork to get the pie edge, and that's it!
"There's no recipe!"
And some Barbie responds: "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't notice..."
NO SORRY! IF YOU NEED A F-ING RECIPE SEARCH "PIE POP" AND YOU'LL HAVE THE RECIPE WITHING MINUTES! IT'S NO DANG ROCKET SCIENCE!!!
The power of the weak... "I'm too stupid to get how to make these or find the recipe myself, I NEED to get the recipe served on a silver platter, with apologies, because YOU were SO MEAN and caused me SEVERE MENTAL DISTRESS by FORCING me to follow a link to a site AND THERE WAS NO RECIPE!!!"
Too lazy to figure out how to break a piece of bread if there's no knife and cutting board around. One would rather die of hunger, bitter to the mean world who wanted one to die, mocking one and taunting with the bread but NO WAY to eat it.
That kind of "stupid" people SHOULD be denied the right to vote or breed. Stupid, lazy, selfish, whiny people believing to be entitled to get everything served. I bet she's considered to be beautiful, that she is SAHM, and her home is spotless and soulless, and she believes to be really creative and artistic and having good taste and being a lady, and I would also say she's USonian, Republican, Christian and offended by little things - like "someone pinned a picture of food on Pinterest without recipe!!!"
Now I have to go and check...

The bitch had pinned this:

ROTFLMAO!!!
Not enough information to conclude I'm right, but what I have seen supports the assumption.

I hate 50 shades of Grey and Twilight and Outlander and Nicholas Sparks, etc. etc. and I especially hate the fans, who claim that there never was a writer before --- and this is the best book in the history of mankind, and who compare everything that happens in the world to their favorite book and characters... that you can't see a picture of a handsome man or two people kissing without diehard fans drooling and swooning and praising their idols.
 
All the things classified as "classy" that are anything but. No, gold nail polish is not classy.

People who copy someone else who is believed to be "all that", even though their style doesn't go with the people's style, and ending with something horrible, like dollar store crap with antique silver and "collect all pieces" thirteen-in-dozen china. And let's add a couple of made-in-china ceramic bunnies that are SOOO cute! And real flowers. In vases that look like something else, like a paper bag. Those are so funny! Not.

People who name things "northern lights" (or anything else) even though they obviously have never seen them and have only a slightest clue (or not even that) of what it is.

People who believe the movie version is The Right Version.

"The Best Ever" "Can't Miss!" "Must-Do"
And EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!! LOTS OF THEM!!!! AFTER EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
And people writing with all caps,
or "leT's bE WhimSicLe And wRite cAps miSh-mAtsheD" -
or using $†9ἧϟ ℉øЯ ℒℰṪṬℰℝℨ. Or foreign letters that look like something but is really something else, but I-don't-need-to-find-out-what-the-letter-stands-for-because-I-don't-speak-that-language-and-I-know-no-one-who-does,-and-my-friends-don't-care,-so-if-you-do,-you-are-not-my-friend-so-there-so!!!!
And using txt msg game writing.

The reason to this rant is that I have been on Pinterest, and not a day goes by without me seeing something of this. I don't want to see any of this crap. I only want to see things that inspire me and make me glad and happy and eager to live my life, wake up in the morning and change my life to what I want it to be. This crap just makes me angry.

Addition 19th of February, 2013

"champagne muffins are actually made with a little bit of bubbly!"
Oh. Does that really need saying?

"I have found a recipe for the potato starter"
Four recipe requests later someone posts a recipe.
12 recipe requests follow.

"you are only allowed search every 15 seconds" - even if your search resulted in nothing.

boxes and mixes and substitutes...
like "cool whip". It's "non-dairy whipped cream substitute", and all the recipes tell you to use it, thawed...  "The key advantage of the invention was that it was a whipped cream-like product that could be distributed in a frozen state by grocery chains and kept in the consumer's refrigerator."
It is made of "hydrogenated vegetable oil" and water, with some corn syrup, dairy products, sugar, wax, emulsifiers, flavors and coloring. So, no, it's not even dairy free.
Easy bake: "One box of cake mix, one package of cream cheese, one sachet of lemonade powder, food coloring, cool whip topping..."
What kind of recipe is "take a cake mix and follow the recipe given in the box, bake the cake"? A LOUSY ONE!!!
So - I started looking for a recipe for strawberry cake.
I found one. "Take a box of white cake mix and a box of strawberry flavored crap..."
Ok... from scratch.
"It is hard to find scratch strawberry cakes, so this one is worth it weight in gold to me as a caterer."
It uses "3 ounce package of strawberry flavored gelatin mix". IT'S NOT FROM SCRATCH, YOU STUPID BITCH!

And then the "breakfast food"... loaded with sugar. Cinnamon rolls, french toast, pancakes... or really fat and salty. I mean... they could probably eat french fries with bacon eaten on buttered sweet muffins and wash it down on sugared cocoa or coffee. Nice.

And why are "kids' alternative" always dessert version? "Roll bananas on thin wheat bread and drizzle with syrup - a great alternative for kiddos in stead of sushi!". "If your child doesn't eat breakfast cereals, make your own chocolate-candy-honey frosted-granola". And then they wonder why their kids won't eat real food.

I saw "personalized easter eggs"... that weren't even egg shaped. *sigh*

And I know:

Price of lies

The truth is that sending all those people to Iraq to kill and die did nothing for any USonian's freedom - except for the POWs and MIAs... I can understand that you have to explain and justify and excuse somehow the fact that your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, sister, brother, father, mother, friend etc. was killed by your government, with your approval, permission, encouragement, perhaps even request... The truth is too hard to even think...

Disturbing Pinterest II

These two images were pinned by the same woman... first one is supposed to be "so sexy". I mean... how... Women are still getting mad with their boyfriends because they can't "read their minds" - they should have known better, they should have known she doesn't like this or that, they should know what to do in every situation... women are still darn codependent and expect him to KNOW IF they REALLY love... yet - objectifying women (there's a damn lot of nudity and prn in Pinterest pinned as "romantic", "hot" and "sexy") (and men) and depicting them in a situation that to me reads as more or less forced and violent is "OK"... How are men supposed to know that women mean it when they say "no is no"?

BTW; I agree 100% with the second picture, what ever I think about Slut walks.

Something about this disturbs me...

I love Pinterest. I look at, well... everything. A mother had pinned a lot of things to the idea board for her sons... among them these... I find it... very disturbing. There were also lego taxidermy set and Star Wars Empire wallpaper... Umph.

Slut Walk

"Society teaches "don't get raped" rather than "don't rape"... Hmm...

I don't support slut walk.

Firstly, I oppose the name. I am not a slut, I have never been a slut and will never be a slut, and I don't dress like a slut. Like the majority of world's women.

"A slut is someone who enjoys sex, not someone who it's okay to rape"
- Samadhi Arktoi

No, Samadhi. A slut is someone who offers sexual services for money. It's synonymous to whore, not to "someone who enjoys sex".
Of course it's not okay to rape sluts either, but no-one said it was. The "offensive" police officer was talking about rape as CRIME. You know, the word that means something is wrong, illegal, offensive... very much no-no, not okay. He was doing his best to see less crimes done, and he wasn't "blaming the victim". He gave a suggestion on what women could do as part of diminishing the risks of becoming a victim of a crime, and I agree with him.


Secondly, I don't think it's that black-and-white.
Most rapes are committed by someone the victim knows, like spouse, relative, "friend" or neighbor.
Most rapes are about power and control, and have nothing to do with what you are wearing. People wearing burka has been raped and sexually harassed and abused.
But that's just "most rapes". There are rape situations that could have been avoided, if the victim had been wearing something else and behaving differently. It happens.

Now - why is it such a big deal if people are asked to do small things like choosing a little more moderate clothes or being watchful in high risk situations, to avoid becoming a victim of a crime, when it comes to rape?
After all, people are asked to do things to avoid other crimes too, like having a fake handbag or wallet with things you can afford to lose in case of robbery, or to get proper locks and lock their doors and windows when they are not home, and not to advertise when they are on vacation, to avoid burglery.
Everyone knows burglery is wrong, and you should be able to leave your door unlocked and be able to return to a home that's in the shape it was when you left it, but I don't know anyone who doesn't think leaving the door unlocked was unwise and sort of inviting the burgler. No insurance company pays you any repairs if you "aided" the criminal by not locking your doors.
Also, I don't know anyone who doesn't blame herself, if her handbag gets snatched from their unguarded shopping cart. 
So - why not try to do things you can do to minimize the risk of getting raped, simply because in MOST rape cases it doesn't matter what you are wearing?

10% of reported rapes happen in parties or bars.
In most cases both the victim and perp had been drinking and everyone knows you are not behaving wisely when you are drunk. Mel Gibson shares his true feelings about Jews, women and everything else, people drive drunk and kill other people, people do stupid "jackass" and "dudeson" things, and people flirt with each other, misunderstand signals, miss signals and the night ends up with people getting hurt - and sometimes raped. 
In college the vast majority of rapes are "date rapes". 
The police officer who started all this was talking to college students.

This brings me to my third reason. The police officer was not asked what he meant with what he said, and of everything he said only one sentence is made known to the audience. This sentence is stripped from all context and interpreted.  He was told to apologize, not given a chance to explain. People has already condemned him as a "typical example of a chauvinist idiot police officer and the attitudes all women have to fight". I hate this kind of fascist, fundamentalist, extremist propaganda, making of examples of people who are not at all as "evil" as painted by the fundies, because it hurts people and in the end also the cause.

Of course women have the right to wear what ever they want - or nothing, if that's what they want - but it's not always right, wise or considerate to others.

There has been a lot of talk about people wearing burka, and some of these women marching for women's right to wear nothing if they like, oppose vehemently to women's right to wear a burka.
My SIL thinks immigrants and refugees shouldn't be wearing their ethnic clothes, but be dressed like every other Dane. She found also my husband's Viking inspired clothes offensive. He loves his sarks and wouldn't wear shorts.
Some people find Lady Gaga offensive or ridiculous.
Frankly, if a woman has the right to be dressed as a slut without any negative consequences, she should have the right to wear anything without any negative consequences... like getting mocked or shoved around or denied access to a prom or restaurant.
KKK members have the right to wear sheets with a cone on their head if they so wish. Not smart though, don't you agree? Would you blame the offender much for beating this person up?
Do you think the KKK guy has some part of the responsibility?
I do.

Then look at these women. Normal women having a fun night out.

But when I look at this picture, this is what I see:

I don't take these women seriously. They are doing a dang good impression of a "brainless bimbo".

I think these girls are more likely to say "yes" to sex - with anyone - than girls not showing their knickers and boobs to everyone who cares to look.
I don't think they are after anything but sex, either for free or for money. Why would you wear something like this otherwise? If these women are not after sex, I think they are guilty of false advertising and teasing, and that's just wrong.
What's the point of dressing like a slut?
I mean, if I was out there looking for a guy, I wouldn't want him to see me as just a sexual being.
I don't understand why anyone would want the whole world to see their private parts. I want to save those to my lover.

I have full understanding that a guy who is probably in the bar or party with the wish of sex - as a lot of guys are, especially in college age - thinks the same.

I don't believe these women have a very good self esteem. I don't believe they have a very good sense of humor, that they use their intelligence (at all), and I believe they are very susceptible, a flock of sheep, doing what everyone else is doing. These girls would "go wild" just because someone told them it's a "good idea", and probably will, because I don't believe any of these will be sober when the night is over, and I bet everyone has done something they would regret if they knew they did it, something they wouldn't have done sober, or in another situation.

I believe they all have been sexually assaulted at one point of their lives, and I would guess they were wearing something similar when it happened.
I also think their "offender" was more or less a stranger or a class mate, and the "offense" happened in a party, and was most likely dismissed as "false report".

Do I think it serves them right?
Of course not. But I think it's pretty predictable.

Now, I don't think these women are begging to be raped, or should get raped or even groped, pinched or insulted, but I do think they are making it easier for guys to take the step over the line. It takes a lot not to touch when someone pushes their tits or ass in your face, and if you are drunk and out to "get some", you might just go for it. Doesn't make it less rape, but I most certainly see "mitigating circumstances".

And this is what the police officer was talking about.

So, even though I support women's right to not get raped, 
and even though I think rape is a crime with too easy punishments 
and I agree the society and law enforcement doesn't take it seriously enough, 
I don't think "slut walk" is a good way of expressing this opinion. 
It's giving people right to call women sluts and changing the focus from important issues to petty matters.

I for one think rape should be seen as any other crime and the punishment should be adjusted to the damage done, but that demands the emotional damage is considered and the consequences of that is that bullying would be classified as crime as well... which I think is a good thing, but fundies don't, because it would remove a lot of their weapon arsenal.