Peeing outside

Noah got in a lot of trouble for peeing outside the other day and from this to the AACA clean up Chinatown meetings I really want people to think about why this is the abhorent crime in some people's minds that it is, especially when dogs pee and poo everywhere so you can't talk about disease spreading, and the nitrogen in the pee (when in concentration can cause nitrogen burn) is actually good for the plants. Of course Noah needs to learn the rules. It's not about right or wrong, it's about different rules under different leaders and learning culture norms. He got in trouble for laughing when they talked to him and he missed gym for his "crime"

You would say, "Oh you can't have everyone doing that."

But if you read the humanure handbook you would learn that what we actually do with our toilets, using drinking water to flush it to  treatment plant which maybe treats it but according to what I've seen at the Aquarium and the science museum pretty much creates a concentrated cloud of nastiness mixed with industrial waste that kills all the fish and produces super bacteria (you know because the antibiotics that people take? that comes out in your number 2s) and sits there and basically is one of the worst things for the environment that we do. What can we do though

Well humanure composting is an example and urine... actually urine can freaking go directly into the plants.... which is what Noah did. No I can't go against the whole system. And Noah has to learn about picking battles and picking when to fight. But feeling guilty for doing something that actually is not wrong.. what they want him to do is wrong... butit is what we are used to and what we have been trained to think is right.

So now if you pee outside on concrete that's bad because it just sits there. But say old guys in Chinatown peeing in the bushes. I was at these meetings and they were talking like that was so bad. Let me ask you something, maybe it is about pulling out your penis in public. But old men with over active bladders... first of all they mean no harm.... but even if they did. even if they wanted to harm a young woman... who do you bet on? Young woman, in shape can jog, does crossfit, or old man, can't even WALK probably can't even get it up and has to pee every 15 minutes because that's old age. Now who is more of a potential threat?

Now I will remind you that Noah is 6 years old. I don't think he needs to learn to be ashamed. You can just say.. okay the rules at school are we don't pee outside during recess. That's it. That's really all there needs to be. So Noah woke up in the middle of the night after that crying in the dark for hours. Am I going to complain? Now because that's basically what school is about. Learning about this society's rules. You want something different? Well home school or better yet, start your own school, which I might do eventually. Will I start it for my own kids? No because I probably won't get it set up by then, but I'm beginning to see that there is a need for an alternative than what is out there.

There are a lot of "problems" in communities, Chinatown, JP, wherever, that when you actually examine them, these are not the problems. I'm not saying there are Bigger problems. I'm saying these are not problems period. There are problems that people don;t even look at, that actually are contributing to our demise as a species, but we want to instead punish and shame people for things that are actually better than the status quo. Yes. Better than.