Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the...
by owebmaster on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:22AM
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Exactly! But... Why get so angry with people that loves meat burger and don't agree that "veggie burgers" are burgers? Unless they go out and attack veggie restaurants, they are not wrong.
Moving this logic to social dynamics, if the majority of the population don't agree two person of the same sex forming a couple is a marriage, why get so angry at this? It is counterproductive as it helps the right wing join forces irrationally around a common ground. People that don't agree with this discussion are not all "cis-gendered white males".
Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the...
by Nursie on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:05AM
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> Why get so angry with people that loves meat burger and don't agree that "veggie burgers" are burgers?
Because said people are often trying to use the force of law to stop you calling your burger a burger.
You can say what you like at home or even in public (and reveal your prejudices to the world), but when it comes to using the state to enforce inequality that's a different matter.
Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the...
by owebmaster on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:54PM
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> Because said people are often trying to use the force of law to stop you calling your burger a burger.
This is the definition of society/democracy. Imagine if Scientology started change US laws?
In fact, your burger analogy perfectly demonstrates the point. Yes, once upon a time, "hamburger" meant a patty of ground beef. However the word "burger" has long since lost the implication of meat and is now freely used to refer to any and all grilled, fried, and baked patties served on a bun.
It's not as though the hamburger was created specifically to be a meat product, and the non-meat hamburgers be damned: it's that when the hamburger was created, the only things of its kind were made of meat. A veggie burger can be "fake meat", but it isn't a "fake burger" unless it's not actually food.