Of course I pray she has a full recovery and is fine, because while I disagree with her about everything, she is my coworker and I want her to be healthy. Plus she actually has a very important role in our small business.
That said, I can't help but laugh about the irony!
I'm still the only pure blood in the office, have never gotten COVID (while 2 of my vaccinated coworkers did) and everyone now is clamoring to schedule their boosters -- including a pregnant woman!! I've gotten to the point now where it's too late, their minds won't be changed, and I just hope they're getting saline solution.
Ideally i want you to stop supporting something you have no clue about, regardless of what that something is.
Clearly there is something that you know about homosexuality that I do not, and supposedly that something could potentially change my mind and I would fight against gay marriage alongside you. Supposedly, if I knew this information, we would be on the same side. So why wouldn’t you want to tell me what that something is?
In my life, I feel I have learned enough about gay marriage to know that it’s something I want to allow my fellow Americans to do if they so please. It’s two consenting adults decidi to spend the rest of their lives together. Personally, I don’t have any issue with what two people do in their private lives, and it’s not something that is harmful to anyone else.
If there is something that I don’t know that you do, I am totally open to hearing it! But I’m not just gonna change my tune just because you say so. I would need some reason why I should stop supporting gay marriage.
You say I don’t know enough about it, okay, then WHAT is the thing that I don’t know yet that would potentially change my mind?
fuck your complacency dude, you expect everything to be served to you on a silver platter, just like the rest of the NPCs expect fact checkers to do the work for them and tell them who to vote for
virtue signaling and complacency also go hand in hand
Bud I don't know what you're on about.
First of all, again, virtue signaling implies I'm just doing something to look good. I genuinely have no problem with gay people getting married. It's not some act to look good or have some moral high ground, I legitimately don't understand why it's a problem for two gay people to get married.
Secondly, I apologize if you think I'm trying to be smug here, but I'm just doing my best to be direct. I don't want to talk you down or try and make you think that I am better than you or something, but I'm not. We have a different opinion on this matter, clearly, but you are the one saying there is something I don't know about the gay community that supposedly will change my mind about gay marriage.
This isn't about being handed something on a silver platter. This is how conversations go with people who are exchanging ideas.
"My opinion is this"
"Well there is more information that might change your opinion"
"Like what?"
"For example...."
That's how most conversations go with people in my life when we have different ideas. If you want me to do my own research on gay marriage, then what exactly do you want me looking for? What is the problem behind gay marriage that is something I should be fighting against? I'm happy to dig further into this myself, but you're giving me no leads here.
This, at least, is my understanding: At its core, gay marriage is two men, or two women, who love each other and get married. For me, a third party, this changes nothing about my life, and provides no harm towards anyone else. Explain to me what more information I need to be fighting against this, because right now, as it stands there, I see no problem with it.
No my dude, this is how a rational and responsible person acts:
"So this new thing i have absolutely no idea about, should i normalize it to the degree of being as fundamental part of society, as marriage is?"
"What's my position to alter such a fundamental aspect of society?"
"Why was this not normalized in any society in any part of the world?"
"Why don't they just ask for civil union or something else that is not marriage to begin with, insisting on altering what marriage is instead?"
I could go on and on.
Last but not least, the first thing i would expect from you is at least some admission of fault for not doing any of this and some interest in doing some research yourself.