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.
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.
I do have an idea about gay marriage though. I've had long discussions about it with people in my life. Gay marriage is not a new concept to me.
Ultimately, I think it SHOULD be a fundamental part of society, if two people choose to get married. I see no argument against why. Man/woman, man/man, woman/woman doesn't matter if it's not my relationship. Society gets altered every single day. Society constantly is evolving with changing technology and ideals. Change itself isn't a bad thing, unless the change is negative.
My whole argument is that I don't see what is negative about this change.
Just because it hasn't been normalized elsewhere is not a good argument for me, because IMO it SHOULD be permitted elsewhere too. Luckily there are many countries that do allow it, and I think that's a good thing.
Why does marriage HAVE to be between a man and a woman though?
Gay marriage is something I've done plenty of research on. For some reason your thought process appears to be I haven't done enough research until I've agreed with you. The fact that it is a change doesn't make things bad. If gay marriage were a BAD thing, then I would absolutely fight against it. But I don't know why it is BAD.
You're telling me that it's a change to traditional marriage, and that no other country is going it. Okay so what? Is that because it's BAD? If it's not bad, then who cares?
If the only argument is that it's not normal...then so what? It doesn't matter what's normal or not if two people choose to spend their lives with each other.
It's bad that in your mind no possibility exists that homosexuality had not been normalized for valid reasons.
in your mind there exist no negative or even possible negative effect and you decided this a priori.
I would expect it stems from a desire to be different and oppose the status quo just because.