Note to my children

Like being 'not-a-racist', being good is not easy. Be wary of people who tell you you are good if you like their status, follow them, share their posts, sign their petition or buy their product. All those things do is give these same people a constituency, power, money. You don't have to do what Nelson Mandela did and spend 27 years in jail before you can be called 'good'. But you can't be good without spending some time and effort. Like reading up. Find out who is already busy doing the 'good' that you want to support. Find out how many groups claim that their thing is the best thing. (Just to hammer this point home: there were many, many, perfectly nice teenagers in a country far, far away, who followed a man called Adolf. They believed that Adolf's enemies were really vicious child-eaters. They were wrong, of course, Adolf was the really vicious child-eater and his enemies were the good guys.) I am not saying that your cause is wrong. I am not saying that it is wrong to try to be good. Please do try to be good. But do read up first.