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So you’ll be totally content if 20 years from now society decides that gay people should not be allowed to marry?
by DataWorker 8y ago
So you’ll be totally content if 20 years from now society decides that gay people should not be allowed to marry?
- contras1970 8y agosome 30 years ago i could ask you: so you'll be totally content if 20 years from now society decides that gay people should be allowed to marry? i'm not really sure what your point is. are you arguing that societal changes should be prohibited? well then: is the recent change towards equalization of gay people's rights ok? why? because you like it? so, let's say we base our reasoning about our present-day society on the culture of 17xx AD England, because change is bad. well, we will have to roll back women's vote to right, not to mention all the modern nonsense that "negroes" are allowed today. but why stop at 17xx AD England: that society was the result of many changes from 10xx AD England. lots of change, and we've established that change is bad. but don't stop there: even 10xx AD England was a product of changes, and changes are bad... btw, the answer to that non-sequitur of yours is "no i wouldn't." but i have to accept the bad with the good. democracy helped Hitler to the Chancellor title. i don't think we should get rid of democracy to prevent another Hitler.
- DataWorker 8y agoI guess I’m saying that societal views on the acceptability of homosexuality have waxed and waned quite a bit, but everyone knows the history. My larger point was that mobs can be quite fickle and for that reason we’ve seen fit to base our jurisprudence on more immutable principals. This I’d argue is an improvement worthy of recognition and protection.