Skepticum

Johnny tagged me with a meme, after he conveniently forgot to answer the questions himself. So Johnny, I’m calling you out! Ben, you’re being called out too.
Here’s the deal:

(1) Explain an issue that you are most passionate about.

(2) Why should all others (ignoramuses that disagree with you) accept your position?

(3) Why do the rest of us (ignoramuses who disagree with you) just not get it?

(1) I am most passionate about liberty, in all its shapes and forms. That includes freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to drink a beer on a beach, freedom to sunbathe topless (I’m ok if men want to wear a bra, let them feel special), freedom to look or not look at topless women on the beach, open source type of liberty, freedom from movie ratings, a free market economy, freedom to pay for sex legally, freedom to buy drugs legally, freedom to marry whichever race, gender or religion, and however many people one wants to marry, freedom from oppression, freedom from deception, freedom from stupidity, freedom to be stupid, women’s freedom to choose if they want or can be pregnant or not, freedom of people to enroll in the military and die at war, freedom of people to vote for a donkey and deserve to have him as president, freedom to have faith (not to be confused with trying to force faith on others), and freedom to try to make all freedoms work with each other without infringing upon other freedoms, etc. etc.

(2) It’s not about others having to accept my position, it’s about others accepting a dialog. In fact, I expect others to challenge me or else I would think I’m gd. Expecting others to just accept my position would be very cocky of me indeed.

(3) “Why do the rest of us (ignoramuses who disagree with you) just not get it?” There are plenty who get it. But in this type of “us” vs “them” discourse I’d say it’s expected that someone always wins, and someone looses (or so does the president teach us), but I refuse to loose, so that’s why you don’t get it.

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