As for "not whores but idiots", these aren't people wanting to get married just for tax benefits. These are people who love each other and want to live together, just as straights do, and want the same benefits straight couples do. "emotional manipulation" -- It's called empathy. You'd apparently prefer not to have any regarding the people suffering under your preferred policies.
I broke down your division between two paragraphs because you are playing with ideas and notions in a way I find illegitimate, and I want to bring your ideas together. These are people who love each other and want to live together, just as straights do - OK, but even given what I said before about the objective near-impossibility of such an outcome, let us suppose it happens. For what reason would it entitle them to want the same benefits straight couples do? Either, as I said, they want the benefits and that is the point, or the benefits are not important to them. But if you use their mutual affection - which I do not deny, and indeed could not deny in the light of the obvious jealousy and heartbreak involved in every break-up - to screw money and privileges from the State, then money and privileges are what you want, and the use of tearful scenes of mutual love is nothing more than whorish emotional manipulation.
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Date: 2012-11-28 06:13 pm (UTC)I broke down your division between two paragraphs because you are playing with ideas and notions in a way I find illegitimate, and I want to bring your ideas together. These are people who love each other and want to live together, just as straights do - OK, but even given what I said before about the objective near-impossibility of such an outcome, let us suppose it happens. For what reason would it entitle them to want the same benefits straight couples do? Either, as I said, they want the benefits and that is the point, or the benefits are not important to them. But if you use their mutual affection - which I do not deny, and indeed could not deny in the light of the obvious jealousy and heartbreak involved in every break-up - to screw money and privileges from the State, then money and privileges are what you want, and the use of tearful scenes of mutual love is nothing more than whorish emotional manipulation.