Comment by ryanx435
9 years ago
How do you feel about bakeries refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings?
Pretty sure this is the same concept.
9 years ago
How do you feel about bakeries refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings?
Pretty sure this is the same concept.
Being a Nazi shithead is a choice.
Edit: downvote all you want. Parent is making a false equivalency and I'm just calling them on it.
How do you know it's a choice? Do you know if people choose what ideologies to align with? Is it a choice to become an addict?
Moreover, a notable contingent of the supporters of the current ruling party believe "being gay" to be a choice - would you be comfortable with a law change?
I find this distinction to be wholly unconvincing. The reason to carve out exceptions for discrimination against gay people is because they've suffered as a minority - it's a practical matter, not a matter of principle. If you try to apply your "choice" principle, you quickly get into logical trouble - for example, does a child groomed by Nazi parents, who has always supported Nazism, have a "choice" to be a Nazi shithead? What if, a few years from now, we discover a chemical that changes your sexual preferences? Should gays stop being a protected class then? What about religion and political affiliation, also protected classes?
Why are you being a Nazi sympathizer?
Edit: To your point, if I must: YES. Looking at someone, or a group of people and choosing hatred is 100.00000% a choice. Just like you choosing to defend Nazi shitheads was a choice.
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> Is it a choice to become an addict?
If you are employing American Puritan-based philosophy, where neos are resurging, then that answer is a resounding YES, you have 100% agency.
despite the research on addicts at least being more ambiguous.
It would be the ultimate hypocrisy in their(your?) ideology to think otherwise.
Getting married is a choice.
Wait the argument you are making seems to be "one chooses to be a nazi and hate, so we should stigmatize that" therefore "one chooses to get married, so we should stigmatize that"
Do you not see how the actual content of the choice matters? The fact that one is hate and one is love? It is not the fact that they are both choices, it is the fact that one chooses to be a nazi and advocate genocide
Are you suggesting that people who don't want to be discriminated against should choose not to get married?
What kind of sick, sad world is that?