RE: Response to Arcanus - "Do Homosexuals have equal rights"
December 3, 2010 at 9:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2010 at 9:23 pm by lrh9.)
Why should a person you don't love get the same rights to interact with you as a person you love? Why should a person you love and want to interact with be denied the right to interact with you and treated by the government as if they were someone you don't love and want to interact with?
[quote='Demonaura' pid='108014' dateline='1291424555']
I grant I was oversimplifying the marrage laws but, you have still yet to explain why married people are deserving of better treatment than those who stay single.
I have almost no sex drive and no plans on getting married, why am I less deserving than two people who chose to live together? What is so great about them that they deserve preferential treatment?
[quote]As for your first question you answered it yourself, it is an imbalance because it goes to some and not others. Why are your rights dependant on you taking a single mate of the correct gender and living in the same house?
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What's wrong with an imbalance? There are imbalances everywhere. There is nothing that can prove an imbalance is wrong. In fact, people naturally chose imbalance. If it is a life and death decision between me and someone else chances are I'm going to try to do something to ensure that I live instead of the other person.
But let's use a hypothetical to discuss this. Say that you are in an accident and left in a coma. You are taken to a private hospital. One of their rules is that only one person may see someone in the hospital at a time, and each person is allowed to have an hour. Say that your wounds are fatal. You are going to die within the next hour. Say that I come to the hospital to visit you, and I arrive before your hypothetical partner whom you love very much. How would your system work to ensure that your partner got to spend your last hour alive with you without giving your partner or your status as a couple any preferential legal treatment over me? Or would you be such a bastard as to not give a damn who was in that room?
[quote='Demonaura' pid='108014' dateline='1291424555']
I grant I was oversimplifying the marrage laws but, you have still yet to explain why married people are deserving of better treatment than those who stay single.
I have almost no sex drive and no plans on getting married, why am I less deserving than two people who chose to live together? What is so great about them that they deserve preferential treatment?
[quote]As for your first question you answered it yourself, it is an imbalance because it goes to some and not others. Why are your rights dependant on you taking a single mate of the correct gender and living in the same house?
[/quote]
What's wrong with an imbalance? There are imbalances everywhere. There is nothing that can prove an imbalance is wrong. In fact, people naturally chose imbalance. If it is a life and death decision between me and someone else chances are I'm going to try to do something to ensure that I live instead of the other person.
But let's use a hypothetical to discuss this. Say that you are in an accident and left in a coma. You are taken to a private hospital. One of their rules is that only one person may see someone in the hospital at a time, and each person is allowed to have an hour. Say that your wounds are fatal. You are going to die within the next hour. Say that I come to the hospital to visit you, and I arrive before your hypothetical partner whom you love very much. How would your system work to ensure that your partner got to spend your last hour alive with you without giving your partner or your status as a couple any preferential legal treatment over me? Or would you be such a bastard as to not give a damn who was in that room?
