(12-13-2023, 12:36 AM)Freija Wrote: As member of a demographic that gets lied about all the time, the right can't claim to be any better except when they do it, it is used to pass discriminatory laws.
The case can be made that ALL laws are discriminatory, regardless of whether passed by the Right or the Left. After all, laws only work against folks that want to do whatever they are passed against, and don't really inconvenience the folks who don't want to do that particular thing... which is invariably the very folks that pass the law to begin with. They only want to control OTHER folks' lives, not their own.
I'll never understand why no one, whether Right or Left, can't just say "I'll do me, you do you, and we can meet on Saturday at the park for a picnic and discuss how the week went" without having to codify behavior to attempt the absolute control of other people via the monopoly the State has on violence to control others not them.
Personally, I put it down to fear and insecurities. Only fearful, insecure folk have an irrational need to control everything around them, or everything that might ever GET around them. Only the fearful and insecure need to micromanage everyone else's business lest those behaviors spiral out of their control in their vicinity.
I'm a member of a demographic that gets lied about all the time, too. Several demographics in fact - "old white male", "gun owner", "hillbilly", the list goes on and on.
Aren't we all, when it gets right down to it?
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