(June 26, 2018 at 12:16 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:(June 25, 2018 at 4:04 pm)Kit Wrote: There comes a time when one realizes doing the decent thing to indecent people doesn't change them in the slightest, because they keep being indecent people, and then the decent thing to do is to be indecent right back.
I'm more concerned with who I become than I am with who I can make them become. I refuse to be a reprehensible person just because I find the beliefs of others reprehensible. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's based on race, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs or lack thereof. If it's wrong to allow blacks a place at the lunch counter or to refuse to sell a gay couple a wedding cake, then it's wrong to discriminate based on political idology as well. While I don't like what they have to say, I don't think I have the right to refuse them a service that is publicly available to everyone just because I don't like the way they think.
Ann Frank was insightful for basically saying, "In spite of everything I truly believe people are good at heart."
That does not mean you give the powers that convince others the same benefit. My late mother was a loving caring decent human whose economic policies I hated. That does not mean you give the powers that convince such the same consideration. There are politicians who get into it for noble reasons, and others who get into it for power.
