Yeah. You just continue taking it as axiomatic that people will be exploited. Or that the nuclear family is a necessary institution. Or that drugs (hey, wanna beer?) and prostitution erode a community, rather than being symptomatic of its existing weakness. Or that gender is some bizarre thing that both needs to be taught and is inborn, so that a girl won't learn to be a woman if she's raised by men, but she won't be a man if she's raised by men either.
It makes it real clear where you're coming from.
Conflating the society with the individual is the same error suggesting that you're desperate to see things in black and white again--same as the one where you say that all people are competing with each other to have a good life.
Augh. I'm starting to be reminded of the time when you tried to cast my pointing out that prositution was not itself a crime and perhaps peole should look at prosecuting those who are actually harming others as "so by the letter of the law, people who smoke at work should smoke crack."
Dude, if you're going to have an informed and rational discussion, then get informed and respond to what people say.
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Date: 2008-06-13 07:34 pm (UTC)It makes it real clear where you're coming from.
Conflating the society with the individual is the same error suggesting that you're desperate to see things in black and white again--same as the one where you say that all people are competing with each other to have a good life.
Augh. I'm starting to be reminded of the time when you tried to cast my pointing out that prositution was not itself a crime and perhaps peole should look at prosecuting those who are actually harming others as "so by the letter of the law, people who smoke at work should smoke crack."
Dude, if you're going to have an informed and rational discussion, then get informed and respond to what people say.
As to who said you didn't care? You did.