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Mike Schoeffler's avatar

Nice illustration of the approach. "We shouldn’t criminalize the sexual behavior or preferences of consenting adults" opens this from salvo to conversation. It also helps us understand our own views better.

What if you really just want to express your outrage without opening room for dialog? Do you recommend always thinking through the declaration and then deciding which way to run?

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Steve's avatar

Two things come to mind:

1) We're assuming that "moral superiority" is even possible -- we're not moral relativists. I'm on board with that, but it is an assumption. And I suspect that most historical homophobia came from moral absolutists. That's not necessarily a good argument, but it's the sort that's often used ("<X> is bad because in the past group <Y> used <X> to oppress group <Z>")

2) I'll raise your "extreme case". What about prostitution (assuming an ideal world where there's no coercion)?

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