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Now extend your attitude to religous belief. All the parallels are there, including believing others are inferior (certainly islam). Should they be done as well
by lsd5you 9y ago
Now extend your attitude to religous belief. All the parallels are there, including believing others are inferior (certainly islam). Should they be done as well?
You are infact imposing a moral belief system. Once upon a time it used to be wrong to not believe in god. Well similarly you are saying the same about gender differences.
- dang 9y agoFor heaven's sake let's not take this into religious flamewar as well. (I'm sure you didn't mean to, but we know empirically what sort of effect this has.) We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021907 and marked it off-topic.
- lsd5you 9y agoOk, but to me it is as plain as day that there is a double standard here and taking the debate on to that kinda territory is the only way to convince the other side about what they are doing... i.e. shutting down people who don't share their belief (you should believe ...). Once upon a time it was you should believe in god. If it is ok to persecute (or at least censor) people who don't believe in various forms of equality then it is ok to do the same to those who don't believe in a god. Certainly the fact that some people believe in supernatural things (ridiculous, right?) but are allowed to state these beliefs despite the fact that on the face of it they are far more extraordinary than the extremely plausible some people are better than others in someway due to the differences in their genetics... The answer is of course that the prevailing pc mainstream does not feel threatened by these daft belief systems (beyond fighting creationism in schools). Anyway, you may be right that it is currently irreconcileable.