Quote from: Gimingo on February 29, 2012, 04:19:05 AMBut then you enter the moral shaky ground of choice. For example, if I lived in the Bible belt and I have been raised with the rhetoric that homosexuality is wrong, is it wrong for me to adopt the general mindset of the area around me? One could make a case for learning to make your own decisions, a question of nature vs environment, but the option is still there of choice for a vast majority of situations.Quote from: Alliteration on February 28, 2012, 07:16:24 PMQuote from: Owen on February 27, 2012, 11:52:32 PMYEAH! I AGREE! TOUCHDOWN! DOWN WITH BIGOTS!
Anyone who judges anyone based on gender, race or sexuality does not deserve the right to breathe my air.
Live your life how you want to live it, not how a few loudmouthed bigots feel you should live.
I'm glad you're proud of who you are :)
*please note* This statement obviously does not apply to me. I reserve the right to judge others for judging people based on ideas, sexuality, race, or creed. Nevermind the fact that I'm basically doing that which I claim to look down upon, since the idea of bigotry is one that is "safe" to dislike, no one will point out my glaring lapses in logic.
It is not unfair to judge a person on their values and actions, since those define a person and are based on their choices.
It is most definitely an incorrect and judgmental thing to judge a person on race, gender, sexuality, etc, something that isn't exactly a choice.
For example, though I am hungry, I am not forced to act upon my natural need of that, if I didn't want to. I could starve myself. In fact, I'd say the biggest part of humanity is our ability to resist the natural urges of our body. So, if homosexuality or various other pathological pitfalls (such as feeling you are born in wrong body) is an urge that we can ignore, then you are making the choice to embrace that aspect of your person.
There is nothing wrong with that, but judging the whole worth of another person based on one aspect of their beliefs is just the same folly as that one claims they are against. Maybe he just isn't comfortable with (insert thing here) but is a great father, contributing law-abiding member of society that saves orphanages from burning children on his weekends. Saying that he "doesn't deserve to breath my air" is a bit much, is all I'm saying.
Understanding breeds empathy, on both sides of the street. It's easy to embrace the side of one that people believe is correct, but it is far harder to do the same to someone who takes what is now an unpopular stance.
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