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OftenBen  ·  3518 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Not Often Heard Voice

Who circledotted the psycho?

Listen, you're free to believe whatever you like about the world. You're free to think that anybody is going to hell for anything you want to name. I'll even defend your right to say so in a public setting.

What you don't get to do is impose your beliefs on everybody else. What you don't get is a country run by the rules of your Mesopotamian war god.





thenewgreen  ·  3517 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hootsbox brings a different point of view, one that I definitely, whole-heartedly disagree with in this case, but I don't think he is a psycho and I'm not sure what "name-calling" brings to the conversation. He's been on Hubski for a long time and has been the source of some great debates and conversation over the years.

Do I think he's way off on this one? Yes, but I appreciate that he's willing to have a conversation about his beliefs, however out of line with mine they may be.

b_b  ·  3517 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I initially wrote "watch the name calling, dipshit," then realized the futility of my words and deleted them. Yours is nicer than mine. We don't always have a diversity of opinions here, so it's annoying to see them stifled when presented.

OftenBen  ·  3517 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My apologies for shitposting. I have a few LGBT friends whose stories came immediately to mind upon reading that post. I reacted instead of mindfully choosing a correct course of action.

hootsbox  ·  3387 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, like some folks are doing now through the courts and not through the "time tested" and intentioned legislative process. This leaves us with "judicial tyranny" warned against in the Federalist papers and in the "rule of the oligarchy" which is also warned against in many, even pre-American documents.

What about the folks who are imposing "their beliefs" on other folks of traditional beliefs? Are they "Mesopotamian War Gods" too?

OftenBen  ·  3387 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm just as worried about the oligarchical rule of the country as you.

But if I'm being honest I don't think it's something we'll have to worry about for much more than a few decades. We're reaching a boiling point I think.