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I can most definitely see how the AI made the mistake. My point is that it might be possible that the human creators of those programs might have had an unwitti

• paulhauggis 11y ago
  "People are free to criticize those who oppose gay marriage" Everyone should have the freedom to their opinion. However, if I say I don't like gay marriage..I have a really good possibility of getting fired from my job and being called "homophobic". I've even heard that even stating this opinion is a form of discrimination. Let's be clear here, I'm not talking about bullying people that are gay or attacking them personally. Along those same lines, I've seen horrible things being said about anyone religious. Horrible and bigoted shit. Yet, there is no outcry. Nobody is getting fired for essentially doing the same thing to another group of human beings.
  • rmxt 11y ago
    Saying you "don't like gay marriage" is a bit like someone in 1950s America saying they "don't like interracial marriage." I don't think that someone should get fired from their job for believing that (because I wouldn't wish that on many people), but it seems that it would be hard for someone to reconcile those beliefs with fair and positive treatment of all people in their work-world. How can you feel that someone shouldn't be entitled to get civilly married while still fully respecting them as a person? Do you have any stories or links for things about people saying "horrible and bigoted shit" about Christians or some other majority religion and then not getting ridiculed/lambasted by some other portion of the population, or not being criminally charged? Wherever I see atheist billboard controversy, I see Christian backlash. Whenever I see Christian billboard controversy, I see agostic/atheist backlash. My general perception is that this is how free speech is supposed to work. Free speech that infringes (or encourages infringement of) on the rights of others to peaceably live their lives with dignity(i.e., for a gay couple to get married) is where I imagine the line between harassment and free speech occurs. This is a critical difference: as demonstrated by recent events (Charleston, etc.), there are terrible people that will take the "bigoted shit" to an extreme and cause physical harm. However, I've never seen an instance of American on American crime where "bigoted shit" led to material harm against a Christian, without the wheels of justice being spun full blast in pursuit. The same cannot be said for historically discriminated populations, e.g. gay people until this generation, black people until maybe the generation before that, and Irish and Italians in the 19th century, for example. Apologizing for a picture that has "gorilla" next to a black person's face isn't about persecution, or gay people, or about any other class of people (as you've somehow made this conversation about); it's about realizing that people in the past were shitty, and we can do better than that.