benched
Joined 13 years ago
Karma
1,645
Submissions
423
Member since
Jan 22
Recent submissions
Comment · 12 years ago
Today, I learned just how trivial people believe gay rights are. I'm actually surprised by it. That's much sadder to me.
Comment · 12 years ago
It has proven to be a much more popular opinion, at least on Hacker News, than I ever would have thought possible in 2014.
Comment · 12 years ago
Ok. Sorry. We'll all use the exact right level of rhetoric from now on.
Comment · 12 years ago
The Hacker News community wants to discuss this story much more than the Hacker News mods want to allow it to be discussed. They think they've reasonably allowed the community to discuss it "enough", already, so they're intervening. Not annoying at all, is it?
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't think you and so many others would say the same thing if the issue was inter-racial marriage, today. Is it really so hard for people to get a little bit ahead of the progress curve for a change, instead of digging in and dragging heels behind it? What is it that makes it so hard?
Comment · 12 years ago
Really? Is there a rash of this sort of thing going on that I don't know about? Or is it pretty much just Brendan Eich right now, reaping the consequences of expressing bigotry publicly?
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm sure I wrote what I did on purpose. Thanks for the invite, though!
Comment · 12 years ago
Oh for fucks sake. Whether or not every Christian is pro-life doesn't change what I said, but thanks for the tangent. Every Internet argument can use more pedantic tangents!
Comment · 12 years ago
Do you even know that you are playing meaningless word games, of the form, "This statement is a lie" or "atheism is a religion"? You really think that "In order to be tolerant, you have to tolerate intolerance!" is a good argument, and not just self-referential verbal nonsense?
Comment · 12 years ago
"Sure, you could say it's a human rights issue."
Are you sure you don't want to give this possibility a little more weight? Maybe a lot more weight? I mean, what if it is a human rights issue?
Of course not, that would be silly.
It would not be "silly" for Christians to target people for being pro-choice. That would be right in line with being Christian.
Comment · 12 years ago
I like to think of this issue in the most specific terms possible, rather than the most sweeping and abstract.
If, for just a moment, you can set aside the bluster, it's just one guy named Brendan having a chance to evaluate whether it was really worth it to him to donate $1k to prop 8.