I am just getting sick of this

[fpb]

What the Devil is the matter with supporters of "gay marriage"? Why do they have to renounce all claims to reason and manners whenever one gets on the subject? Why is it that you are not allowed to even discuss the possibility that "gay sex" may not have the same status as straight? And why is it that they all use the same ugly and stupid insult - namely, "batshit insane" - for anyone they disagree with?

Honestly, I am sick of this to my back teeth. Three times I have tried to engage supporters of this idea in serious, calm, reasoned debate. Three times I have met with livid rage, utter refusal to even try to reason or argue, and the astonishing fact that these people take pride and brag of their rage, their irrationality, and their hatred. I have had enough. People who take this attitude are asked to defriend themselves from me now, and spare everyone the grief.

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[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

I believe that generally the notion is quite right. Practically everyone with whom I wind up engaging in what turns out to be a piss-fest (if you will pardon the term) believes that their own opinion's self-evident truth is enough to vanquish any foe. The more evidence and reason to the contrary, the more shrill and enraged they become. They simply connot abide that someone is actually telling -- no, proving -- that their opinion is no more than self-congratulatory folly... So they simply become self-righteously indignant.

Churchill did have the moral high ground, yes. Lincoln did too, but it was the fact that he jailed and exiled those who tried to argue with him that really bothered (and still bothers) people.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Ahem. Perhaps the fact that he was fighting with his back to the wall, not only against a huge rebellion inside his country, but also with the justified suspicion that the Great Powers (Britain and France, in an unusual and scary alliance) were eagerly hoping for the collapse of his country or at least for its permanent weakening, might have something to do with it.