zimmerman8k said:
Bro I was making fun of the persona you assumed.
Yeah I know. But I wanted you to join in.
Suppose it does harm people in that they feel marriage has been devalued. This opens up a real floodgates issue. If we accept mere offense as being a harm sufficient to justify legislation to prohibit something; the absurd result is that almost anything can be declared offensive without any objective standard to judge what is offensive.
I suppose proponents would argue that sufficient harm to a sufficient group of people would be caused? (Or whatever the respective legal terms would be.)
Personally, I find religion repugnant. I think it devalues education, logic and rational thought. If enough people in society begin to think like me, should we therefore outlaw all religion?
No, well see we certainly disagree here. I really don't see how you can separate religion from other social behaviours and mechanisms. In the west, religion's very obvious and I suppose we could walk behind most religious people and say when they're acting in the sphere of religion, and when they're not. Other places in the world, though, really show that what we would call religion can just be a constant behavioural framework, whether it's conscious or not.
At the very least, I'd be very disappointed if one were so hypocritical that, instead of persuading people by the very rationality and freedoms in which they preach, they simply outlawed it like some sort of fascist dictator. I honestly believe that if you think like that, you're already part of a much worse religion than many.
