Unintended Circumstances

Whenever a law is passed, you can count on one thing. There will be ramifications, what are called "unintended circumstances." This has been illustrated time and again in the past.

The best example is Prohibition. Although well-meaning and probably a good thing for the health of the nation and its populace, all it did was result in the biggest crime spree the nation had experienced to date. The mob went wild selling the illegal hootch.

Then, in more recent memory, the slapping on of tax after tax on the tobacco industry resulted in hijackings of cigarette shipments, smuggling from foreign countries, and some abrogation of business rights, all of which were passed on to the non-smoking consumer in the form of higher prices on everything, and higher taxes.

So it was with some concern that I read a story in today's paper about Australian passports now providing a third option when it comes to gender identification: Indeterminate, to be identified with an "X" instead of an "F" for female, or "M" for male.

The unintended circumstance (the difficulty in determining a persons's gender) was created by the success of transgender operations and identity changes, unisex clothing and hairstyles, and the increase in security at a country's entry and jumping-off points because of the terrorism threat.

Nobody said it was going to be easy; it's just too bad this has to be done.

It's just another sign of the approaching Apocalypse.