Drunks, Drug Addicts, Victims

Reference The Mountain Press editorial, Monday, February 11, 2008, “Is performing a award?”

I agree with your point BUT Ms Winehouse, (I am old enough to have no idea who she is) was not rewarded as much as the program was rewarded and was able to avoid negative press. Can you imagine the outcry if she was not permitted to perform? The producers of the reward show would have been attacked throughout the media for judging and punishing poor Ms Winehouse. She would be on CNN for the next week as a victim of the do-gooders. One other thing, I believe because she has a problem she should be punished. She made the problem and she is the only one who can correct it. Ignoring it does not help. She is a 24-year-old drunk and drug addict. She is the scourge of society. She should be ostracized until she eliminates the problem. At that point we can let her return to proper society.

Associating album and DVD sales with talent is problematic. Talent has little to do with sales and they can be and are most of the time, mutually exclusive. Does she wear skimpy enough clothes as to get the hormones of both young and old excited? Does she rebel against the establishment by using drugs and alcohol AND sex to get a lot of media attention? Talent is the least of the parts of the equation.

Your comment “our culture is taking another situation and glorifying it for society” is right on. As no one besides me of course believes Ms Winehouse should be punished, we let her be a victim. Remember that local drunk and drug addict Renfro(?). How about Ledger (?)Drunks and drug addicts. Victims......

Mosaics: ...the oldest members of the youngest generation, currently 18 or 19 years old
Busters: ....those 20 to 38 years of age
Baby Boomers: ....ages 39 through 57 and
Elders: ....a combination of the two oldest generations, comprised of people 58 or older


Views On "Morally Acceptable" Behaviors,
by Generation
The data trends indicate that the moral perspectives of Americans are likely to continue to deteriorate. Compared to surveys conducted two years ago, significantly more adults are depicting such behaviors as morally acceptable. For instance, there have been increases in the percentages that condone sexual activity with someone of the opposite gender other than a spouse, abortion (up by 25%), and a 20% jump in people’s acceptance of ‘gay sex.’

Men were more likely than women to deem nine of the ten behaviors to be morally acceptable. (The exception was sexual relations between people of the same gender, which women were slightly more likely to condone.) The most sizeable gaps were related to pornography (men were twice as likely to deem pornography acceptable) and drunkenness.

Among people aligned with faiths other than Christianity, half or more described each of seven behaviors as "morally acceptable" - gambling, co-habitation, sexual fantasies, having an abortion, having a sexual relationship with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse, pornography and profanity. Atheists and agnostics were the people most likely to describe any of these behaviors as morally acceptable. In total, atheists and agnostics defined nine of the ten behaviors as morally legitimate, dismissing only the use of non-prescription drugs.