Aren't you supposed to tell idiots when they're exhibiting unacceptable behavior? but yeah, it's kinda naive to call someone out on their asshattery (it's not swearing when you're talking about a hat shaped like a donkey) and not expect some kind of retaliation.Baresark said:It is wrong to call someone's bullshit on a forum that everyone can see, and then act like you are surprised and hurt when they turn their loud mouth on you. The best way to deal with people like that moron is to ignore them, not publicly talk about them on Twitter. Or you can, you know, leave out the references to them that link your comment to there twitter page. But they didn't do that, so I almost feel like they deserve what they got and that it's disingenuous of them to write an article on the site that makes them sound like victims.Floppertje said:snip
I think you have the subtext correct, actually. People who are against SSM draw some pretty gruesome and pretty inappropriate parallels with other things. One of the more common comparisons is that with beastiality. They say, "what's next, people gonna start marrying their dog". They make some pretty specious arguments regarding something that literally has no effect at all on their lives.
Also... weren't we kindof over the whole dehumanizing other groups of people thing? you know, apart from when we label them terrorists.