(December 3, 2010 at 10:16 pm)lrh9 Wrote: People do need help and protection to survive, and they want help and protection to be happy. Invariably people without government fail to provide the necessary or desired level of help and protection to each other.Strawman. I never argued, and have never argued that governments shouldn't help and protect their citizens. This also has nothing to do with the point at hand, which is marriage benefits.
Quote:What you are saying doesn't apply to me. Of course I defend my style of government, but my style of government isn't myopic and it isn't built on my own myopic interests.My style of government isn't myopic either. It is based on Libertarianism and republicanism, whereas yours is based on some leftist ideology. Either way, you wouldn't like it if I suggested that drugs were all legalised, and I wouldn't like it if you said we should increase marriage benefits. Don't try and play the apathy card when you are clearly not apathetic, having taken a stand in this thread and attempted to argue it.
Quote:Technically almost nothing is default. Living people have only two guarantees. Living and acting. Ultimately arguments don't matter. There is no such thing as logical proof of rights or proof of privileges. Rights and privileges are literally fought for and protected by people who value them. War is merely politics with diplomacy fails, and I've tried diplomacy to change your values. That's failed, so if you ever make policy changes to take rights and privileges from married people simply because you don't have them I can almost guarantee that people would rise up to smack you and your political party down so hard it would be funny.Firstly, the reason I want to take privileges (not rights) away from married people isn't because I don't have them. If I were married, I would feel the exact same way about marriage rights. You do not have to be part of a group of people to feel that what they have is unfair; my support of gay rights is an example of that.
Secondly, despite your very eloquent language, this paragraph did absolutely nothing to answer the question: Why should married people have more privileges than single people?
