Illinois to become 15th state to recognize marriage equality

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I wasn't aware that marriage was some unalterable law of nature that could only be interpreted in one way. You've got to love the self-righteous constipation here. It can only be this way because that's the way it always was. You know, humans were nomadic hunters and gatherers for far longer than we've had cities and stationary homes. Is civilization wrong? Was it a violation of the natural order to live in a hut and grow crops and tend livestock? I'm sure there were no shortage of people who held this viewpoint circa 13,000-9,000 BCE.

As a white man, that works just as well to justify me enslaving people with brown skin. Society viewed my kind as inherently and naturally superior to people with other skin colors. Did this stop being true? Is it still true but we're living in multicultural denial? Or, was it never true in the first place?

Feelings of superiority typically derive from the domination of others, and similar beings are often categorized as having some common characteristics. Most Spruce have abrasive bark, most Birch have smooth bark... when envisioning a Birch tree, we subconsciously associate such with how we believe they will feel, how we envision them to look.

When encountering any thing that but mildly resembles the common characteristics expected of its population, there are three common responses: confusion, curiosity, and apprehension. How an individual responds to such is a very good reflection of their person.

I could provide a number of examples, after all: I have been, and remain quite discriminatory.... but I believe that the reader is ALSO quite the distinguished distinguishing distinguisher

'Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.'

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Speaking of which, I have Assassins Creed 4... I should play more of it, but I can already say it's a vastly superior game to those come before. I can finally enjoy* these games!

*My back STILL screams in agony every time I perform a "Leap of Faith"

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[quote='Ryantology' pid='543920' dateline='1384557060']
It really doesn't impress me that you dodged the questions and justified your cowardice in the stupidest way possible.

On another note, Lion IRC has suddenly become remarkably silent in this thread for some reason.

People have lives, and they gotta breath

I wouldn't want to spend all of my time here, being all philosophical, as it's lost on most people, and she who benefits from my presence is quiet indeed.

There is no greater an opposition than silence; no greater an insult than ignorance; no greater a weapon of war than pacifism.

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Ooh! ooh! I know why!

It's because Lion actually has a brain that does consider right and wrong, and he sees himself on the side of super-crazy here, and feels uncomfortable?

Am I right, Ryan? Do I get a sparkly pencil or an eraser shaped like a rainbow or something?

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If you strip away all of the justifications for your viewpoint which are demonstrably arbitrary or lacking any basis in objective reality, you have, as a defense of keeping marriage traditional, "I think gay sex is icky and there are few enough of them that we can get away with treating them as second-class citizens".

Welcome to society's basis, Ryan