The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

That means you’re bigoted against gay love. You don’t have to be gay to appreciate two men expressing love for one another. It’s about loving love. If you’re repulsed by gay love you’re a homophobe. You should see the beauty in it even if it doesn’t give a boner.

I'm back on the ticket if you'll have me.

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by Maajo

Do you approve or disapprove of discrimination?

How anyone feels about discrimination is irrelevant. People should have the right, regardless. As long as they are not physically harming someone else.

Originally Posted by Maajo

Is the employer firing your ass for being a racist ******* "the free market sorting itself out"

Yes, it is.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

You just proved my point. Say there is a gay person being discriminated against. That discrimination is legal.

Here's a surface level observation for you: the right to infringe on other people's rights? How do ya wrap your head around that one?

Just because they don't appreciate that discrimination, they think that their lifestyle is in danger of being taken away.

Talk about a slippery slope. If we allow people the right to create second class citizens for pointless reasons out of someone's control, they can take that to the point of deciding that they don't deserve to live. You know what they say, give them implicit oppression and they'll take a genocide.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

How anyone feels about discrimination is irrelevant. People should have the right, regardless. As long as they are not physically harming someone else.

Like starving them?

[Maajo]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

How anyone feels about discrimination is irrelevant. People should have the right, regardless.


Yes, it is.

Well isn't that ****in' enlightening.

[Maajo]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Like starving them?

Especially then. Come on, what's free expression if you can't get away with a little death by starvation. That's maximum freedom right there.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

I'm back on the ticket if you'll have me.

You were never off, were you?

#ChulaHawkNewYearsTeam

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by Frownland

the right to infringe on other people's rights? How do ya wrap your head around that one?

It's not infringement. If you don't like me, should I petition the government to force you to bake me a cake against your will? The baker would be the one whose rights are being infringed upon.

Originally Posted by Frownland

If we allow people the right to create second class citizens for pointless reasons out of someone's control

Like children not being able to vote or drive or buy cigarettes or alcohol? I'm not advocating for this, but they are being discriminated against because of their age, which is out of their control.

[OccultHawk]

Like children not being able to vote or drive or buy cigarettes or alcohol? I'm not advocating for this, but they are being discriminated against because of their age, which is out of their control.

I don’t think there should be age requirements for this stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Childhood

This book gives an interesting perspective.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

It's not infringement. If you don't like me, should I petition the government to force you to bake me a cake against your will? The baker would be the one whose rights are being infringed upon.

If I'm selling cakes to people as a business, then yes I have to sell you a cake if you're a reasonable paying customer who happened to be in my store whilst gay. You want to bitch about infringement from the government? That's nothing compared to the atrocities that can be committed against minorities if we "let the market balance itself out." People's tendency to be idiots is the reason that the government came into the picture in the first place.

Like children not being able to vote or drive or buy cigarettes or alcohol? I'm not advocating for this, but they are being discriminated against because of their age, which is out of their control.

I can show you some very well established research on the difference between a child an adult's mind if you like. Did you check out that false equivalency link btw?