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Originally Posted by Aramike
I assume my rebuttal will fall on deaf ears because you either are clearly ignoring my position or you're just not reading it.
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No, I got your position, as my analogy pretty clearly shows.
You and I have the right to eat Spam, but not anything else.
Gay men and women also have the right to eat Spam, but not anything else.
Therefore we all have the same right to eat Spam, but not anything else. Equal rights FTW!
The fact that you and I can be perfectly healthy and happy eating nothing but Spam, whereas for the gay man and woman it has the exact opposite effect, is completely irrelevant as far as you're concerned, because people only have the right to be happy and healthy if they can be that way eating nothing but Spam, just like us. The fact that we won't let them eat broccoli, which
would contribute to their health and happiness, is beside the point since we would never want to eat broccoli ourselves - yuck! - and have forbidden it to everyone else regardless of whether they want it or not.
It's the same old same old... you can have whatever you want, as long it's what I think you should want, my opinion of which is based solely on what I want for myself. If that's not what you want, you can either make do by pretending to enjoy it anyway or do without.
And OMG if we let them eat broccoli we'll have to admit that it exists and that some people actually survive on it, and don't need Spam at all! This would completely invalidate our preference for Spam! And then they'll probably start demanding that we eat broccoli and pretend to like it or else go hungry! That would be wrong, except of course when we do the exact same thing to them.
So, yeah, I think I pretty much got it.
