Take each sides view and see what they lose, if they lose in this case.
I can see that.
Which is pretty much what the left is doing here. Pushing for supremacy, rather than respecting moral differences
What I expect is happening, though, has more to do with diminishing returns. Whether what's at stake is moral or anything else, doesn't matter, there is a continuum of weight for the other side of any issue. No one, no one, is going to pay any attention if the opposition is one person and that person wears a tin foil hat. That's the extreme other end of the continuum and that's written off cavalierly. The question is, then, at what point on the continuum is the line of demarcation for what you take seriously and what you dismiss. I expect that, in this case, they have simply written off the objections as dismissible, not cavalierly, because they know that there will be resistance, but dismissible nonetheless. If you're on the other side, you'd call it bullying. But on their side it's having a job to do and getting it done.
I know you think that when the issue is moral, nothing is dismissible, no matter how lonely the tin hat, but, just as hardly anyone is opposed to contraception, hardly anyone thinks that issues of morals warrant a continuum without a line of demarcation. |
