cheetah

MSNBC poll of the day: Should gay marriage be legal?

After my vote, it's about 45/55 against legal gay marriage
http://www.msnbc.com/news/778726.asp?0cm=c10

yguy

It appears, then, that if I take a picture of a hot babe in a slutskirt and use it to gratify my sexual desires in the privacy of my home, I am similarly violating her rights. Right?

And if the children don't know it's going on and never find out, how can it possibly be a violation of their rights?

Calzaer

It's naturally intuitive. But some people are obviously more in tune with their natural-born intuition than others. You've obviously abandoned your intution; I feel sorry for you.

winstonjen

Well, some people don't want to view copulation in public between other people, and as they don't expect to see it, they inadvertently see it against their wishes.

If by 'virtual' you mean cartoons and drawings, not actual photographs, then yes, I would agree.

yguy

I don't guess many people like to watch people pick their noses, but I doubt even the ACLU would back you up if you claimed your rights were violated by public nose-pickers.

Indeed. Nevertheless, no one has an inalienable right to view virtual child porn.

winstonjen

People picking their noses is common. If you didn't like it, you'd know that some people do it, and can avoid seeing it.

I don't believe that any rights are inalienable.

KnightWhoSaysNi

Not long Especially since you've seen the Canadian flag adorned backpack and T-shirt that I brought with me to Colorado!

The same backpack I'm wearing in the attached pic below too. Scigirl (with me in the photo) can vouch for that!

It's a Canadian thing, and we probably do it for 4 reasons: we don't want to be confused for Americans, peer pressure, it's a bit of a national pride thing, and it gets us attention from cute backpacker girls from other countries sometimes. When I was in New Zealand and Australia, Canadians were the only ones who zealously made it a point to adorn as much national paraphernalia as possible.

Jason

yguy

And this differs from PC how exactly?

Then how can anyone's rights be violated, since if you are correct, all "rights" come from societal consenus?

You said virtual porn violates the rights of children because they are being used for sexual gratification even if they don't know it's happening; but by your logic, if society decides that it's OK for them to do that, no rights have been violated.

Nowhere357

Regardless of the answer, explain how this question leads to justification for the intolerance of gays.

The answer is within the question. And explain how this question leads to justification for the intolerance of gays.

Were the rights of blacks violated back when slavery was considered acceptable?

And explain how your comment leads to justification for the intolerance of gays.

You seem to be desperately flailing around for something - anything - to discredit non-biblical morality. Keep trying, maybe you'll find it, and anyway it's fun to watch.

Calzaer

Ya know, something just occured to me...

If all this moral knowledge is "intuitive", why do we need the Bible? Shouldn't we all have "intuited" Christ's existance at birth?