Regardless of personal beliefs, modern society tolerates a wide variety of lifestyles. Many of these are discussed in Answerpool forums.

Are there lifestyles you simply cannot tolerate? I don't mean those you don't embrace but have learned to accept. I mean those whose general nature and behavior patterns are so amoral or destructive that you feel they have no place at all in a civilized world.

If you have done a "180" on a lifestyle, let us know about that, too. There may be some lessons learned in sharing our experiences.
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03-04-04, 06:03 AM
MrsS
If involvement in the creation or distribution of methamphetimines is a "lifestyle", then yes, there is a lifestyle I find utterly deplorable.
Is being a street pimp a "lifestyle"? I feel that earning a living off someone else's desperation is unacceptable....I think that prostitution laws need to be changed, but pimps are a pus-filled boil on the ass of mankind.
And, of course, any "Lifestyle" that revolves around hurting things smaller, more dependant or less powerful than yourself....molesting children, beating up on people, arranging dogfights, scamming the elderly or desperate, etc.....

03-04-04, 08:41 AM
Texan-In-Exile
I think MrsS has hit the nail right on the head!
The first thing that came to my mind was pedophilia. But all the other examples she gave are totally unacceptable to me, too. Mad

Oh yeah - I'm not too big on cannibalism, either... Roll Eyes

03-04-04, 10:10 AM
Georgia85
I find a lifestyle of total BDSM disgusting. I'm not referring to those who play around with it. I am referring to those who own slaves and have them registered. And yes, I know someone who lives this lifestyle. He is also much into inflicting pain on his slaves and I have just discovered that he enjoys self-inflicting pain. I just can't understand or accept this life.

03-04-04, 12:13 PM
DvdGStwrt
What ever floats your boat and as long as no one is being hurt or harmed against their will.

Master/Slave relationships I do not understand - as long as both parties agree and they do not force me to play along, fine - have fun.

Murders, Molesters, Rapists, yada, yada, yada - these are criminals - I do not see these as lifestyles - more of a sickness or illness of mind, spirit or heart.

David

03-04-04, 10:52 PM
coldfuse
Being a gang member appears to be a lifestyle choice. Should that gang practice violence, then I put it squarely into my unacceptable category.

03-06-04, 09:42 AM
aminator2002
I am pretty tolerant but I would not be able to deal with anyone who is a member of a hate group like the KKK or NeoNazis.

There are some kinds of ignorance that are inexcusable.

03-06-04, 01:17 PM
Sherasi
I have recently begun to develop a disgust for people like Paris Hilton who so casually spend millions of dollars for their own pleasure.

There are people who struggle to put food on their table, roof over their heads and she buys and wears a $5000 pair of boots and wears them once... and does that every day all the time.

Paris recently wore a dress made from a million dollars of poker chips. Does that make any sense?

03-06-04, 01:32 PM
shelster
I have to agree with you Sherasi. That makes me sick.

The other thing that bothers me is when people judge others without knowing the whole story. For example, people who bash welfare moms. Well guess what, I was a welfare mom and I got myself through nursing school twice, while living on welfare, and I now pay my taxes.

Ok, off the soapbox

03-08-04, 12:46 AM
stampeding turtles
Everybody has listed mostly the "little guys" that people like to beat up on, but are actually mostly harmless, or least don't harm thousands or millions. I alway get upset when I see the police harass some little guy who has a little pot, or getting caught for some relatively minor crime, or doing something in the privacy of his own home, but few are going after these big fish who are better protected. But they are the ones whose lifestyle I find much more unacceptable. Like......

-Corporate leaders,and their ilk, who are white collar criminals.(Enron Martha Stewart, World Com, etc)

-Religious leaders who are hypocrites, pedophiles, etc and use their spiritual position to gain advantage over and exploit others, for money etc.

-Military leaders who, if they lost the war, would surely be charged with war crimes against humanity.

-Corrupt Political Insiders, and lobbyists.... this is a particularly egregious lifestyle.

- Police lifestyle with its brutality (that has been well documented in many instances.) and overuse of excessive force, as they are taught this to get control of every situation. A horrible macho mentality and lifestyle.

-Materialistic Wallstreet types, who view everything and everybody as a commodity to be exploited; a greedy, degrading capitalistic lifetyle.

-leaders of oil companies. Terrible lifestles..... should all be prosecuted for greed and other crimes against humanity.

-HMO leaders and their healthcare lackeys. Terrible people(I know some),
they should be forced to have little coverage themselves and be told NO when they get sick. They are basically business types, and not trained in delivery of healthcare themselves. So it always the bottom line, and therefore they are out of touch with the "human" suffering. Same for military hospitals that I have worked in.

-the industrial polluters of our water and air. These are criminals too and in the far future when conservation and "earth" is the religion we practice again (like the Native American did when we stole this country from them) they will be burned at the stake for the horrible things they have done.

03-08-04, 11:15 AM
honilov
Crooked cops, gang bangers, boys wearing their pants down below their butts...just to name a few, and I agree with a lot of what Stampeding said.

03-08-04, 07:28 PM
puppyblues
Pretty much what MrsS said, as usual. Smile

03-09-04, 04:50 PM
Lucy
I consider myself a very flexible person (when you are working as a psychologyst you just learn to accept people for who they are). However, something I cannot tolerate is a lifestyle that includes degradation of any type towards othe human being or towards oneself.

To me a lifestyle without self respect or respect to others is unacceptable and should be changed.

03-10-04, 12:49 PM
Elexina
Any "lifestyle" which causes harm to another is unacceptable to me.

Sherasi, I agree with you. Paris Hilton et al disgust me completely. They think nothing of spending $100,000 on a purse or a bag to carry her ugly dog in, while I'm running around shutting off all the lights and turning down the heat, hoping we'll break even this month.

03-17-04, 11:00 PM
Tree
I don't agree that people who have BIG BUCKS should be growled upon for spending their bucks frivolously! It's THEIR bucks to do with WHAT they want!

Although, this would not be MY choice method of spending these big bucks - that's my opinion! It's not my money. If it was, I'd be a bit wiser and help people in need, without a doubt!

People who make their fortunes seem to have more regard as to how they manage their account. People who have monies showered upon them, seem to take purchases to the limits.

Either way - it's none of my business.

Roll Eyes

03-18-04, 01:05 AM
mattlynda
everything listed above, and people who fake mental illnesses to get away with murder.
not the truly mentally ill, but those who sleep with a psychiatrist to get a diagnosis that will get them probation.
also, people who abuse the welfare, disability, workers compemsation etc.
programs like that are there to help the truly needy. not the lazy. i knew a lady who would get pregnant within a month of being told her welfare benifits would be cut off, just so she could stay on. leach.

03-18-04, 06:08 AM
clarebear
I can't accept the religious when it is convenient lifestyle. I know who many of them are and I am not fooled by words or bible quotes. Sin now, pray later... yeah OK. Roll Eyes

It is pretty obvious when people don't practice what they preach. (And boy do they LOVE to preach!)

03-19-04, 02:11 AM
puppyblues
THANK YOU TREE! I was trying to find the right words to put that. If Paris Hilton or anyone else that's loaded wants to use her money as toilet paper, that's her right, as an American. It might not be the best way, it might not be what we'd do, but it's not ours to use...so she is free to do with it as she pleases.

03-19-04, 01:55 PM
FredPuli
Tree : the head of the Rothschilds took a cab and gave a modest tip. The cabbie said 'You are Mr Rothschild, the head of the bankers? Your son gave me much more than that !" and got the reply " Yes. He has a millionaire for a father. I haven't "

( For some reason my own father, who had started in business in 1930 with £5 was very fond of telling that story ! Confused )

Naturally, the heir has no sense of the value of the money or of suffering involved in getting it, unless he earned it or has to manage it, and the business, for others. Though down on the Riviera we find that the instant millionaires are worse than most heirs/heiresses ; the novelty gets them and they go crazy. They can't adjust to the idea that you don't go out and buy a reservoir to prove you can get water; you just take what you need from the faucet/tap Smile

03-19-04, 07:53 PM
Tree
FredPuli, I ADORE your father's story! It's SO TRUE!

12-29-04, 03:00 PM
jusork
Unacceptable Lifestyles
I'd honestly have to say I can't think of any. I can really tolerate a lot. It takes a certain feeling in me to really get me to take an active stance on something.

Perhaps it's hard for me not tolerate groups of people. I can imagine meeting nice racists and respectable pimps. An individual's personality can make me look past whatever their negative thing is. And so it becomes something that depends and people have different degrees of that negative thing that's tolerable.

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