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No, I don't. If marriage would be a millenia-old tradition of status of same-sex pairs, that propagated into the legal system, and in the year 2020 there would
by krick 6y ago
No, I don't. If marriage would be a millenia-old tradition of status of same-sex pairs, that propagated into the legal system, and in the year 2020 there would be a petition to make the same status apply to different-sex pairs, and I would be a vocal proponent of that petition, I would still not see what's wrong with being opposed to that petition. That's his opinion, he has all the rights to defend it. And I would still despise anybody who has trouble understanding how active rivalry on one topic may co-exist with active cooperation on some other topic.
- ptx 6y agoYour argument that we must make the effort to tolerate opposing views in order to cooperate on other issues isn't helped by stating as a side-note that this requires no effort for you personally because you're not actually opposed to that view. Anyway, back on the political question, on one side you have real people being affected and on the other you have vague and abstract claims of tradition. This sure makes it feel wrong to those people affected. Edit: Perhaps the real problem is with the framing of the question. Some people just want the right to a legally recognized partnership. Some people see marriage as having religious implications. In any case it's a complicated issue that we're not going to solve here.