@underbear
Nice pics you posted.
I always like when people hide behind pictures because they think they need to trigger an emotional response.
And it doesn't help that you include the picture of some kid in with the pictures of abuse of prisoners. Those prisoners, regardless of their treatment, were in prison for a reason.
If this is you trying to sneak in that people hate Gays, the Black side of my heritage would like to tell you to shut up and wait until someone can tell from your skin color that you are different, then decide you are subhuman and enslave you in a distant country for a couple centuries.
You see hatred against Gays as a tragedy; I see it as an improvement.
Consider that instead of being biased about something someone truly cannot hide, like Gender or Ethnicity, there is hatred against a group with the ability to hide what they are if they don't like it.
They shouldn't have to hide, but since this is an aspect of their personal life that is no one else's business, if they want to shout it out they should expect the hatred
as well as the support.
So as far as ending Gay-hate goes, realize that in some ways Blacks and Women are still struggling for equality. Give it time, and be thankful that the Gay Rights movement is standing on the shoulders of giants like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln, to name a few.
You know, people who had more to lose by representing equality than they had to gain.
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Quote by: kubedawg Without hate, we wouldn't have love. Without light, we wouldn't have dark. |
But whereas "dark" is technically "the absence of light", I don't think "hate" is "the absence of love".
Light and Dark are not opposites. Opposing forces imply that with the absence of either, you have the same thing. The absence of Light and the absence of Dark are each other.
But Love and Hate are opposite. The absence of either is Indifference.
Consider the following...
(and I'm dredging up a new argument, just using it as an example)
Without belief in God or non-belief in God, is Agnostic; the Unknown.
Without Love or Hate is Indifference.
When you have true opposites, a fact of human psychology is that
most people would rather choose a side, no matter the extreme, than accept the absence of something.
People would rather make a choice on God than accept that it's truly Unknown.
People would rather Hate than be indifferent.
That's a funny thing about it; that Hate is so easy. Kindness and courteous, even Indifferent Politeness, takes effort.