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News flash: What your family tell you isn't always what works in the wider context. You seem to have a very narrow minded view that your family told you x,y,z so therefore that is right and the rest of the world is wrong.
As for leaving a country, I'd like to see someone try walking across say Iran with little or no money and manage to get out of there, survive and be able to provide for themselves if they had no job, money or house etc.
Hypothetically, if your family told you it was ok to kill someone for no reason, would you then think it was acceptable. I know it isn't the same in any stretch, but you have recently made complaints about how your family was trying to restrict your access to your hawk. If I remember correctly, it bothered you quite a lot. What about someone who loves another person and is told that they cant be with or have the person they love, just because someone has values that they like to infringe upon others.
The best yard stick in these kind of situations, is that if someone's values harass or impinge on someone else, then barring the odd exception, they really shouldn't be considered to be true and socially acceptable values.
This isn't going to come across well, but based on your replies you take posts that I read as a metaphor or simile or example very literally. Are you autistic?
What? Do you not know about flying?
I often find that I come across some things that I don't understand, I always try to go out of my way and research something. It's always good to be proactive with finding out about things you don't understand.
I'm not saying don't listen to your family. What I would say is that just because someone says something, doesn't make it fact or gospel. I wonder if some of the reactions you have witnessed in here might have opened your eyes to other viewpoints that people can have? I'm not saying that your family are always wrong or mistaken, but sometimes people have views that are restrictive on others, and tend to stick to those views without regard to how harmful they can be. It is always good to explore other view points and opinions, just to see what is out there incase you could be wrong. Somewhere like these message boards can actually be very useful for engaging peoples opinions on certain matters.
I thought you said you had never left the country? Or was it a domestic flight.
Well that's how people leave the country. Either that or by boat.
They often do have fences across the border areas between two countries.
As for you taking things as fact because it is easier, that is a problem that you might have to learn to deal with, otherwise you might find that you could easily be taken advantage of.
Don't you think it's a little hateful to oppose a change which will have no direct effect on you at all? I'm not trying to be inflammatory by asking that, I am genuinely interested.
If you don't like the idea of gay marriage, don't marry someone of the same sex. I don't see how it matters to anyone else that some people want to.
No. Not in the slightest. 'Hate' is an emotive word that gets overused in matters of discrimination. I have no doubt that some people's motives contain hate but I doubt the majority would. Ignorance, arrogance, jealousy etc yes, all very likely. But 'hate'? No, and I consider it highly irresponsible the way many people use the word like that.
I'm pro-gay rights and pro equal marriage but I don't think that because something doesn't directly affect you it is hateful to oppose it. I can think of many examples of things I feel strongly about that don't directly affect me. For example if the government proposed sending unwanted children into space to get rid of them, well I'm not an unwanted child and I don't have an unwanted child but I would be strongly again this idea.
LOL you're fucking mad :L I'm catholic and i pretty much agreed with everything you said up until this point. Bloody hell :L
I can understand why those who are religious would like to be married, as it is a part of what they believe, but for the majority of others, I believe it is nothing more than a social requirement. Marriage is simply what you are supposed to do, and that is why you do it.
That's a pretty tall order to ask someone to be ok with no sex, unless they also had no sexual desire (which will be hard to find). Would you still expect them to be faithful? Just curious.
I haven't given it too much thought. I have friends with no sexual desires who are married (other abuse survivors) but they aren't happy. I would like the spouse to whip me though so maybe they'd enjoy that.
To be fair it does say in the Bible that it is better to be single than married.
so?