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#77 Mar 04 2014 at 2:06 PM Rating: Good
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Something about Austin having a bunch of hippies I bet.


No, IDrownFish has been on the defensive about Texas lately.
#78 Mar 04 2014 at 2:31 PM Rating: Good
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Probably because he is from Texas.
#79 Mar 04 2014 at 2:49 PM Rating: Good
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Probably because he is from Texas.


I picked up on that.

ETA: I'm from Tennessee and now live in Florida, but I don't feel the need to defend either state. I'm not even sure it's possible to do so....

Edited, Mar 4th 2014 2:50pm by Belkira
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Sometimes I'm surprised Austin is still a part of Texas.
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#81 Mar 04 2014 at 2:53 PM Rating: Good
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Sometimes I'm surprised Austin is still a part of Texas.
They have effective City Limits.
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#82 Mar 04 2014 at 2:53 PM Rating: Good
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Australia (as a whole Smiley: mad) is a racist prick.

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Belkira the Tulip wrote:
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Probably because he is from Texas.


I picked up on that.

ETA: I'm from Tennessee and now live in Florida, but I don't feel the need to defend either state. I'm not even sure it's possible to do so....

Edited, Mar 4th 2014 2:50pm by Belkira
Texas is a big state. No need to generalize and some defense might be justified. But is a solid red state with very conservative politics that tend to sway, or attempt to sway much of the rest of the country.




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Belkira the Tulip wrote:
ETA: I'm from Tennessee and now live in Florida, but I don't feel the need to defend either state. I'm not even sure it's possible do so ...
At least we aren't Arizona.
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Australia (as a whole Smiley: mad) is a racist prick.

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#86 Mar 04 2014 at 3:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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Yes, urban areas often do. What is your point?


I'm just saying Texas gets a pretty unfair rep sometimes.

I mean, sometimes it gets a reputation which is 100% deserved, but I just don't think that's the case here.

Belkira the Tulip wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
Something about Austin having a bunch of hippies I bet.


No, IDrownFish has been on the defensive about Texas lately.


Eh. It's been popping up a lot over here recently. I usually don't join in in the Asylum Politicsâ„¢, so if it seems like I've been talking about Texas a lot it's because it's one of the few things I actually do talk about in the Asylum. Other times I just don't post.

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Probably because he is from Texas.


I picked up on that.

ETA: I'm from Tennessee and now live in Florida, but I don't feel the need to defend either state. I'm not even sure it's possible to do so....


Yeah, that would be a toughie.


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#87 Mar 04 2014 at 9:49 PM Rating: Default
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I like how Gbaji always compares homosexuals to child rapists and dog @#%^ers


I "always" do this? Really? So in this thread somewhere? No?

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and always compares SSM rights to giving a child a pet.


I compare any government benefit to giving a child a free pet. Because it's the best example I can think of where we'd all agree that just because you oppose the government spending money on something that benefits some group, doesn't mean you hate that group.

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The contempt just drips through with each post.


That's entirely within your own imagination.

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Even better when he's ironically insisting that he doesn't feel that way: "Just because I don't want homosexuals to have the right to legally marry the partner they love doesn't mean I hate them! I don't want to give every toddler a kitten either!"


And? It's a valid point. When someone's argument rests on the claim that if I don't want to grant marriage benefits to gay couples, it means that I hate homosexuals, it's perfectly legitimate to point to another case where I don't want my government to spend money providing something nice to a group but where it doesn't mean at all that I hate that group as a means of showing how illogical that argument is. Nothing ironic about it at all.


Do you think that the only reason for wanting to deny some government benefit for a group is because you hate that group? Cause that would be a fun one to try to defend.

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I "always" do this?

Regularly. If a semantic victory over the use of "always" is what you want to pin your argument on here, that says volumes by itself.
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That's entirely within your own imagination.

Funny how my "imagination" always plays out the same way, huh?
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Do you think that the only reason for wanting to deny some government benefit for a group is because you hate that group?

Only? No. Yours? Eh, maybe. Less "hate" and more just like I said: contempt.
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Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
I "always" do this?

Regularly. If a semantic victory over the use of "always" is what you want to pin your argument on here, that says volumes by itself.


How often is regularly? IIRC, I made that comparison one time, in one thread, years ago, and I'm reasonably certain I didn't say that homosexuals were rapists or whatever. I almost certainly used child rapists as an example of another form of behavior which people might oppose to make a broader point about how social mores don't have to be "fair" to everyone in society.

And I know for a fact that I have *never* argued that gay couples should not be granted marriage benefits because they're just like child rapists. Ever. So good job bringing up something completely irrelevant, I guess.


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Do you think that the only reason for wanting to deny some government benefit for a group is because you hate that group?

Only? No. Yours? Eh, maybe. Less "hate" and more just like I said: contempt.


And yet, your only evidence for this is that I oppose the government providing said benefit. Circular much?
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IIRC, I made that comparison one time, in one thread, years ago...

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And yet, your only evidence for this is that I oppose the government providing said benefit. Circular much?

Nah, my "evidence" is your words and behavior on the forum. I don't expect you to agree or admit to it so, no, I'm not interested in "proving" it to you. People can draw their own conclusions by what they read.

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#91 Mar 05 2014 at 3:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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gbaji wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
I like how Gbaji always compares homosexuals to child rapists and dog @#%^ers
I "always" do this? Really? So in this thread somewhere? No?
You constantly make a "slipperly slope" argument equating them, yes.

On top of being a horrible American and human being, try not to be a liar, too.

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and always compares SSM rights to giving a child a pet.
I compare any government benefit to giving a child a free pet. Because it's the best example I can think of where we'd all agree that just because you oppose the government spending money on something that benefits some group, doesn't mean you hate that group.
Right. It's like how I don't hate homeowners; just the free money they get for buying a house.


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#92 Mar 05 2014 at 6:24 AM Rating: Excellent
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Only? No. Yours? Eh, maybe. Less "hate" and more just like I said: contempt.


No, I don't see that. I see him genuinely not understanding why we'd wish to offer relational benefits to gay couples over non-coupled gay people or non-coupled straight people. I believe he overlooks a lot of the non-financial benefits which really should be offered, and focuses on the financial benefits which should really be offered to 'all couples with children' rather than all straight couples.
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#93 Mar 05 2014 at 7:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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But gays can't make children by themselves! And that's what marriage has always been about since the beginning of time.

Edited, Mar 5th 2014 8:48am by lolgaxe
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#94 Mar 05 2014 at 9:31 AM Rating: Good
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Marriage is the defense against all of us just running off and having gay sex all the time, because then the human race would die out!
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gbaji wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
I like how Gbaji always compares homosexuals to child rapists and dog @#%^ers
I "always" do this? Really? So in this thread somewhere? No?
You constantly make a "slipperly slope" argument equating them, yes.
I seem to recall something about marrying animals and kitchen appliances.
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Hey diddle diddle.....

Just don't marry the frog to the blender. Get the facts on domestic violence.
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#97gbaji, Posted: Mar 05 2014 at 6:42 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) And if someone argued that anyone who opposed the mortgage tax deduction hated homeowners, I'd disagree with them too, for exactly the same reason. What's your point?
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And if someone argued that anyone who opposed the mortgage tax deduction hated homeowners, I'd disagree with them too, for exactly the same reason.

Do you oppose the mortgage interest tax deduction?
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I see him genuinely not understanding why we'd wish to offer relational benefits to gay couples over non-coupled gay people or non-coupled straight people. I believe he overlooks a lot of the non-financial benefits which really should be offered, and focuses on the financial benefits which should really be offered to 'all couples with children' rather than all straight couples.


I understand perfectly why people wish to grant those benefits to gay couples. I disagree that we should. Those are completely different things. My argument largely revolves around the fact that the cost to society if same sex couples don't marry is significantly lower than the cost to society if opposite sex couples don't. The question is not "how does it hurt you if a gay couple marries?". It's "how does it hurt you if they don't?".

The disagreement usually ends out being over why we have those benefits in the first place. Most people think that the benefits exist to help the people who receive them. I think that's a foolish reason to provide benefits because all benefits "benefit" the people who receive them. It's a circular argument. We could justify *any* set of benefits to *any* group by that logic (like say, giving every child in the country a free pet). To me, if you want to argue why we should provide some benefit to a group, you should argue that by doing so, the rest of us gain some benefit or avoid some cost. It's easy to make that argument for granting marriage benefits to couples consisting of one male and one female. It's hard as hell to make that argument for a same sex couple.


And let me point out (for the zillionth time). Granting benefits to couples who are raising children is completely separate from granting benefits to people who marry. One pays people to raise children. The other encourages people to form into relationships most beneficial to raising children *if* they reproduce. That's a pretty important distinction.
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I understand perfectly why people wish to grant those benefits to gay couples. I disagree that we should. Those are completely different things. My argument largely revolves around the fact that the cost to society if same sex couples don't marry is significantly lower than the cost to society if opposite sex couples don't. The question is not "how does it hurt you if a gay couple marries?". It's "how does it hurt you if they don't?".

The social effects of marriage show no indication of being tied to sexual orientation, and primarily revolve around stability for children, the increased stability of two income households in times of stress, etc. Not rocket science. There's certainly an argument that there is no benefit to legally codifying cohabitation. There is no valid argument that there is a benefit to codifying hetro cohabitation but not SSM. This isn't new ground, been endlessly thrashed out in court cases and academia for decades now.
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And if someone argued that anyone who opposed the mortgage tax deduction hated homeowners, I'd disagree with them too, for exactly the same reason.

Do you oppose the mortgage interest tax deduction?


No, I don't. Why? My point is that my position isn't based on liking or disliking "homeowners". In this specific case, it's about making it easier to own a home. We clearly believe that society is better off having more people owning their own homes, than fewer. Ergo, it makes sense to make owning a home easier. It's not about liking or disliking homeowners. That's silly.

In a similar way, society is better off having more opposite sex couples married than fewer. Ergo, it makes sense to make marrying easier for them (and provide them some incentives to do it). Society is not affected one way or the other if same sex couples marry. Thus, there's no reason to provide state benefits to them if they do. They're still free to marry if they want, but we have no reason to provide them an incentive to do so.
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