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To: Dayuhan who wrote (10631)4/24/2002 9:05:09 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
A recent post (don't remember whose) cited a survey that found that 42% of Americans felt that homosexuality should be illegal. That seems quite reasonably close to "irrational and illogical" status.

I'm not one of those 42% but I don't know how many of them have their opinion because of fear or hold their opinion for irrational or illogical reasons.

If for example you felt 1 - that the highest and most important purpose of government was to promote morality, and 2 - that homosexual activity was immoral, then believing in 3 - The government should ban homosexual activity, is a logical conclusion.

Of course being logical doesn't save it from being wrong. I could come up with a whole series of valid logical arguments "proving" things that I think are wrong. I suppose that many of those 42% are at least somewhat illogical, but I don't see how a label assuming irrationality should be applied to all of them. I don't have enough hubris to think that believing in religious, or philosophical or moral ideas that I disagree with makes one irrational. Even on subjects like history or science where evidence is actually available I don't think that only one opinion can be rational or even that someone can not be incorrect without being irrational.

Tim
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