08-12-2021, 07:19 PM
(08-12-2021, 01:21 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(08-12-2021, 09:58 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-11-2021, 01:38 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(08-11-2021, 10:11 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-10-2021, 06:22 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: ... I don't believe much in democracy because I know my views are in the minority in my generation. Since my views are in the minority and constantly disrespected by my generation, why should I value the same democracy that allows these people who disrespect me to have power over me? Why should I respect their views if they don't respect mine? Being in the minority in my generation absolutely made me much more hardline than I would have been otherwise.
Based on that argument, why should the rest of us accept your "right" to impose your views on us? You complain that the authorities won't pursue actions and actors you feel offend you, but seem OK with pursuing actions and actors that actually harm others you don't support. That's far beyond cynical; it's authoritarian.
How else am I supposed to react if my views are in the minority? Negotiating or talking it out won't work because if you give an inch, they take a mile. Individual voices don't matter, only the "studies".
When we are in the minority and unable to make the rules, we all have to ask: are we being denied personally? Inother words, are your adversaries forcing you to do something you vehemently oppose or forgo something you find essential? Being denied your "right" to never be offended by way others dress or being forced to use seatbelts in your car don't make the cut. We don't live in Iran after all.
I am forced to live in a world where my beliefs are constantly disrespected yet their beliefs are seen as objective truth. Christians are forced to do gay marriages now.
A Christian church that refuses to recognize or perform same-sex marriages still has that right.
These fellows are still very much in business. Click at your own risk of offense.
It's the Westboro Baptist Church, the slimy "church" that Fred Phelps led, a hotbed of homophobia. I do not claim that this entity is representative of mainstream Christianity. It has a particularly vile name for gays in its website.
An illustration of how some churches deal with same-sex marriage is that Mormon-dominated Utah allows public officials to refuse to ratify a same-sex marriage only to defer the responsibility to someone else.
I am satisfied that some men can only love men and that some women can love only women... and I say let them have their homosexual marriages. That in no way debases heterosexual marriages. Don't ask me to endorse marriages between adults and children, people with animals, or people with inanimate objects (cars, guns, etc.)
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.