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Originally posted by northexpedition
Now that homosexuality is the "in" thing, because it's so rebellious and "new" I theorize that paeodphilia and bestiality are next in line for equal rights.
Originally posted by grapesofraft
reply to post by schrodingers dog
I read through part of it but i think I am missing your point. Could you tell me what you expect me to glean from it?
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Let's imagine an ordinary eighteen year old girl. Let's call her Maria.
Now let's imagine that Maria was born and raised under three different scenarios:
Life 1: She is born and raised in Thailand, under relative poverty, and is now a prostitute in Bangkok. The law in Thailand is clear, if you register with the state and take monthly std tests, it is legal to work as a prostitute. Not only that but the profession does not even carry much stigma. It is definitely considered neither illegal nor deviant. It is simply within the norm of their society. source
Life 2: She is born and raised in the US under the same circumstances. But as prostitution is illegal, she spends her time in and out of jail. She is considered by society as low level criminal and some people might label her deviant.
Life 3: She is born in Saudi Arabia. You can see where this is going. Let's assume that a sequence of events leads her to one night take money from a man for sex and the man rats her out. Imagine the way that society would judge and punish her. Their custom is to to jail victims of gang rapes. source
So what do we have. The girl (subject) is the same in all three cases, that is to say that her genes are are the same no matter which country she happened to born into. The only difference between the three lives are the societies which is to say the "observers" in which she was born. And in each case, the individually and collectively assign criminality and deviance onto her, the only constant "subject" in all three lives.
Originally posted by northexpedition
reply to post by jeasahtheseer
Just because I live around gays doesn't mean I have to accept their behavior. If I lived in a neighborhood with gangs and drug dealers, does that mean I have to accept THEIR behavior?
You can't believe I live in the bay? I moved here from Texas, because I like the weather and the scenery. Tell me that as a conservative I don't have a right just as much as anybody else to enjoy this part of the world? Your defininition of acceptance is very exclusionary. As long as you aren't a conservative, it is acceptable to live in San Francisco? Give me a break. I know an old guy who lived here in the 50s and said it used to be a normal town. Suddenly all the drugs and liberals arrived in the 60s and it's gone way over the line.
I refuse to be told I can't live here and enjoy the nice weather, job opporutinies, HOT WOMEN, biking trails, beautiful forests, I refuse!
Tell me I can't be unique! Tell me I can't be different in this supposedly "diverse" city. YOU make me sick. As long as I am not a liberal, I don't belong here, is what you're saying.