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What's with all the claims of left-handed people being discriminated against? Last I checked, they were just as free to write and throw with their right hand as I am.
I'm not sure if being sexually attracted to a child is a choice. It's certainly not one I've ever had to make. I also don't know of any studies, or psychology concerning child molesters, but I'm sure they exist. But let's assume being attracted to children is not a choice. We have all kinds of laws that protect children. And we have all kinds of laws guaranteeing equal rights among adults. I don't think we should conflate the two.
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I'm not sure what "argument by analogy" means. There are analogies. Some are much better than others. I think this one is pretty solid.
Solidity is demonstrated , not stated.
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I think that throwing in the notion of abusing children into a discussion of what is commonly understood as a discussion of what consenting adults can and can't do with each other in terms of contract law, is not a good argument.
If two consenting adults decide to engage in prostitution.....Hence we are now back to this being no resort appealing to legal consistency as if two consenting adults suffices.
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Um, it's the conservatives that have actively passed laws in the gay marriage debate. DOMA comes to mind. That's a law passed by conservatives that has the government actively banning a contract between two adults. Liberals, in this case, simply want the marriage equally applied to all, gay and straight.
Marriage is not like other contracts. I know of no such contract for example that I may become a buddy of someone and make them eligible for citizenship. Nor do I see the conveyance of social security benefits and so on. However again, we know it has nothing to do with banging away all night since prostitution was so frowned upon. It had to do with preserving the resources for offspring.
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In fact, it won't be any law passed that ends this debate, it will just be applying marriage laws to everyone. As is the case with other actively bigoted conservative laws that remove rights instead of applying them to all, the courts will decide this issue, not the legislatures.
I don't want laws given to everyone because I reject the premise that it had anything to do with couples.
Now again, if the intent is for adoption, then I have no problem with it. Otherwise it will just dilute any legal purpose it ever had.
This is kinda tough for me to answer, because, as I remember, I had pretty good ambidextrous abilities until probably the 3rd or 4th grade, which, as I thought at the time, made me pretty awesome.
Undoubtedly, I should now be considered right-dominant, and I don't recall ever having made a conscious choice or effort to become a righty, nor do I recall any teacher or either of my parents ever having discouraged me from using my left hand for penmanship, throwing, etc. Somewhere along the line, I guess somewhat late in pre-adolescence, my left hand just ceased to have equal dexterity for whatever reason (subconscious choice/preference, perhaps?).
weirder than anyone. I am a left handed Aquarius, should have been a blonde but I'm a brunette and I am transaged.
there are probly more since I have been told I am the exception to every rule but Aquarius pretty much covers a lot of my freaky nature so perhaps it would be redundant to add any.
Not really. It's clumsy in how obvious it is. Good satire isn't simply taking one word and replacing it with another. This is just a bog standard homosexuality argument with left handedness replacing homosexuality. Good satire is illuminating. This isn't. Gulliver's Travels was good satire. This isn't good satire. It's just self righteous pseudointellectualism.
Not really. It's clumsy in how obvious it is. Good satire isn't simply taking one word and replacing it with another. This is just a bog standard homosexuality argument with left handedness replacing homosexuality. Good satire is illuminating. This isn't. Gulliver's Travels was good satire. This isn't good satire. It's just self righteous pseudointellectualism.
Not really. It's clumsy in how obvious it is. Good satire isn't simply taking one word and replacing it with another. This is just a bog standard homosexuality argument with left handedness replacing homosexuality. Good satire is illuminating. This isn't. Gulliver's Travels was good satire. This isn't good satire. It's just self righteous pseudointellectualism.
Bad satire, indeed.
So bad that I actually thought my OP on this thread was at least somewhat relevant to a discussion about the supposed social hostility toward left-handed people, LOL.
Over my head...
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