(February 8, 2017 at 3:26 pm)Violet Wrote:(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.
So basically; People should fight to their last dying breath for what should be a basic right, just because some people - who it won't effect - Don't want it to be a thing.
Oh, and your own personal experience is apparently gospel fact about everybody everywhere all over the world...
And i'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say the kid probably wanted it. I know my little sister wanted to dye her hair pink when she was that young, so i don't see a problem? The only reason we didn't let her is because the school she went to would have thrown a complete hissy fit. But i guess that makes my law abiding, police officers for parents actually bad parents, right?
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."