In this world, I feel like, today at least, I am pressured to be moral as well as nice and...
... politically correct, at all costs. I am not simply given a choice here and there, even in circumstances where potentially offended third parties may not be around. I don't view it at all as a bad thing. However...
Several folks, even mostly good and normal ones, of my type, white, young men etc in their teen, young adult, adult years, can at times be rather relaxed with rules, silly, a little or a lot politically incorrect etc, and they often don't care at all if they get told off. As long as no police arrests and other serious consequences happen, they're alright with it.
They have no trouble openly talking about sex, beautiful women, sometimes even provocative topics and often in one sided ways.
Even when about 5 years ago I mentioned one fantasy, I was simply questioning why in their minds it is that way, not looking at the overall "reality" of the situation. Oh, and when it came to typical traditional examples, including male on male you know what, they had their own basic "straight guy" reasons behind them whereas in a much more mature and civilized mindset, I am being told NOT to separate these issues even for personal mental reasons. REMEMBER - not everyone is an "expert" on the matters and not everyone is objective. Besides, in other traditional cases, while CORRECT, I often heard people become VERY EMOTIONAL at the mere MENTION of such WORDS, even if they themselves haven't experienced real life troubles with it.
Same or similar with stuff like bullying, fighting, light or otherwise theft and other matters.
But emotionally, it can be hard sometimes walking on tiptoes all the time. And be a constant rule follower. I wasn't even ALWAYS like this. And at times I also broke in childhood and teen years rules myself, though I frequently but not always told off others if they picked or bullied me etc in various ways, sometimes I TOO regretted it, yeah I was naive and sensitive also.
OF COURSE OF COURSE OF COURSE, YEAH I KNOW, actual bad and illegal deeds I do NOT do and yes I know all about empathy etc and law, but hey, that's kinda a little besides point, and downright OBVIOUS, for me at least, to boot.
But even now, I always feel like I have to at least act, look, think and try to be logical, nice, respectable, following rules, respecting codes, accepting the status quo etc and whether parents or past and present authority figures, I feel like I am being pressured to do so. Is that normal, and what do you think, thanks. Like someone put me in some mental MORAL box folks.
P.S. YEAH, I KNOW, I made MANY SIMILAR threads before, this may even be a repetition with SLIGHT variation, but still...