doc_loliday wrote:Its the same logic that liberals use to denounce religion, eg, the Catholic Church. Just because Popes become corrupt and priests rape doesn't mean the tenets of the religion are wrong. Just because people own guns, doesnt mean theyll murder people. And fornication doesn't cause disease. This is all logic fail. I would think a compsci guy would recognize this, but that too is a failure of logic.
No.
I am talking about moral behavior. Immoral behavior, by definition, negatively impacts others. The big lie of liberalism is that there exist all these immoral behaviors that don't really harm anybody else. THEY DO.
I constantly hear libertarians argue that it should be legal for people to shoot up heroin. As if that doesn't impact anybody else. It impacts everybody.From the people in Seattle walking through piles of disposed needles to the human potential that was lost to the scourge of drug abuse. It has a huge impact on our entire society.
You try to argue safe sex doesn't have a moral impact on anybody. Yeah, it really does. Plummeting birth rates have created the demographic winter that will be upon us in about two decades hence.
The big lie is that all this shit that you guys defend is good and virtuous because it doesn't affect anybody when the negative effects are fucking everywhere. Safe sex fails. We have a huge number of single mothers literally tearing our society to the fucking ground right now.
Furthermore, the reason it is so laughable that you guys try to counter-signal the authoritarianism of the Marxists is that there exists a fucking freeway between the moral license you defend and authoritarianism. There exists an important distinction between recognizing a moral wrong but tolerating it and claiming it's all good because "nobody else is affected" while refusing to acknowledge all the negative impacts on others. When you take the "it's all good" route, people start demanding legal rights and other social considerations for their immoral lifestyles. Those legal rights are what infringe upon everybody else's freedom. If I don't want to engage in that immoral behavior -- because it's fucking wrong -- then I have to get run out of my business because people like you have been arguing it's a moral good this whole time.
You have to start owning your shit. Liberals are terrible at it.