(November 20, 2017 at 4:46 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Even if all that is true, do you think about your end goal? What are you trying to accomplish? If it's changing someone's mind, calling them a shitbag is just going garden them in their position. If it's changing the mind of a third party observer, it's not doing much for your case either.
Ultimately what you are left with is that it makes you feel good to do it. Which is the oldest reason anybody insults anybody.
You can't just go around changing people's minds on their bigotry. If logic worked against bigotry, there'd be no bigotry in the world. Bigots aren't just waiting for someone to come up to them and explain "Gay people are people too!" People aren't logical creatures. Why do you think religion is so popular? Religion is illogical (and I say that as a semi-Deist who believes there may be something out there greater than all of us, which itself isn't logical.) If people followed logic, then there'd be a point to trying to change people's minds.
"Tradition" is just a word people use to make themselves feel better about being an asshole.
