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There is no such thing as an "interracial marriage". There is only one human race extant on planet Earth. > but it'll be awhile before a church refusing to per
by NoMoreNicksLeft 10y ago
There is no such thing as an "interracial marriage". There is only one human race extant on planet Earth.
> but it'll be awhile before a church refusing to perform a same-sex marriage is regarded as aberrational
It's a strange sort of progress that wants to brainwash everyone to think/feel/believe as you do. This must be the "diversity" you're always harping about.
- rayiner 10y ago> It's a strange sort of progress that wants to brainwash everyone to think/feel/believe as you do. This must be the "diversity" you're always harping about. "Progress" doesn't mean accepting all beliefs. There is right and wrong, good and evil. "Progress" means figuring out which are the right and good values and inculcating them in the people.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 10y agoApparently it doesn't even mean coexisting with people who have different beliefs. You insist on brainwashing them or otherwise eliminating their beliefs from visibility. It's sort of strange. There is no "right and wrong" or "good and evil". Progress means change for the sake of change, because you all feel deprived that you weren't born early enough to do anything meaningful with your lives.
- dang 10y agoYou've become increasingly uncivil in your comments here. That's not the right way to use this site, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- NoMoreNicksLeft 10y agoNothing I've said is uncivil. Why does it feel like that to you? Do you often imagine things in other people's words that isn't implied by the words themselves?
- dang 10y agoTelling people that they "insist on brainwashing" and are "always harping" is uncivil. You need to edit that kind of thing out of your comments if you want to continue commenting here.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 10y agoOk. So what makes those things "uncivil"? Is it that you feel that they're untrue characterizations? Or is it that I failed to find the correct euphemism? Or is it the mention of the ideas themselves, which would never be permissible even if true and no matter which euphemism were used? I've re-read the other guy's comments. I'm trying to understand your point of view.
- dang 10y agoThey're uncivil because they're (a) pejorative and (b) personal. That's orthogonal to whether they're true or not. Even assuming they're completely true (which is dubious, because pejoratives mostly express dislike, not truth claims), it's still uncivil to express them that way. Indeed it's often more harmful to express a truth uncivilly than it is to express a falsehood.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 10y agoSo I need to come up with more appopriate euphemisms and talk about "theys" not "yous". Gotcha. I'll make those changes immediately.