(February 8, 2017 at 3:00 pm)Jello Wrote: People should be able to get married to whoever they want, but people are dicks, so you americans had to push it all the way to your supreme court to get anywhere with it. You're also saying "respect the opinions of people you disagree with", but at the same time, surely they should respect ours too? Cyclical, isn't it?
Say that when this is used to bring polygamy into legality. There's a real risk of runaway legislation under the guise of interpreting the 14th amendment. It doesn't matter that it was probably the right thing to do: it was the wrong way to go about it. It's just the same with Roe vs Wade: probably the right thing to do, but the wrong way to go about it, and it's a bad decision even though I agree that abortion should be legal to some extent (and with the exceptions of major risk to life/terrible deformities).
State legal authority is an important thing to me, I will say. I disagree with how Florida and California legislate... but I wouldn't want to (except in the very most important cases) intrude on the way that the people within those states have voted in the people who decide how they operate. The point at which I'm willing to do that, and the point at which other people are willing to do that are at different points... hence the election of justices to the supreme court that gets to decide these things often occurs in respect to ruling party judicial interests. It mostly balances out: most of the time the supreme court delivers well enough for me.
But I'm not going to pat them on the back for jobs hack done.
Quote:I've yet to meet a bad person with dyed hair, ironically enough. So basically what you're saying is; You've had bad experiences with people with pink hair, therefore all people with pink hair are bad? Because that's what you appear to be implying
Opposite enough to me. What I consider to be a bad person and what you consider to be a bad person likely differ. In my opinion, those individuals have ruined it for me. That is all I am saying. I associate them negatively. Of course not all pink haired people are literally Lena Dunham.
But that still doesn't mean that you should stick pink hair on a child.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day