lpnmajor wrote:
So it comes down to perception, again. If we perceive a person to be " in the right", they can do no wrong. If we perceive them to be " in the wrong", they can do no right. I thought that was what laws were supposed to avoid, by making everyone responsible for the same thing.
Now days, we don't even care about the law, or justice. It's all about what WE feel is right and just. If a law differs from what we feel is right, then the law is wrong. If I see a thing as being right and you disagree, something is wrong with you, so, you're an enemy, a criminal, whatever.
We are a hop skip and jump away from anarchy and I wouldn't be surprised at the numbers of people who would welcome that. Few people respect anything that is not the same as they are, no matter what it is, as anything different is a danger. We equate ALL things not the "same as us" as being equal, ,meaning, that there is no difference between being Catholic and being a serial killer, or between being a liberal and a pedophile, or between being a republican and a thief, etc., etc.
We hate what we don't understand, we hate whatever is different, we hate being wrong and we damn sure hate to lose. Instead of looking for things that are the same between us, we are obsessed with what is different. Even the democrats and the republicans have succumbed to this malady, as they have gone out of their way to be as different as possible, making compromise another dirty word. Unity, compromise, murder, rape, community, liberal, conservative, robbery - all these are words we keep in our personal hate files. If you subscribe to any of these, I hate you, because you've all taught me - that's what I'm supposed to do.
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If you equate murder, rape, robbery, or child molestation with compromise then you are one bizarre person The term hate crime is used very loosely. I do not know of anything that"progressives" approve of that the conservatives have tried to push as a "hate crime" but I do know of a number of things that conservatives believe in that "progressives" call hate crimes and want the offenders to be punished for. Daring to say that the Bible says that homosexual activity is a sin, having a cross where atheists might be offended, calling the holiday
or supporting traditional marriage come to mind. In several discussions on OPP the statement that the percentage of homosexual men who molest boys is higher than the percentage of heterosexual men who molest girls has been considered anti homosexual and therefore "hate speech" Name a statement that has been considered a hate crime or hate speech that is part of the "progressive" jargon if you can.