New Cat's Eye writes:
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It's like if we were coworkers and every time we had a minor disagreement about something you ran to the boss to get them to implement a decision so you could force me to comply with your way.
That's how adults behave.
If there's a conflict, we seek to have it resolved, yes? After all, we shouldn't resort to violence, right? We need to have some sort of way to adjudicate which one of us shall prevail.
And if we as a society don't like the way that decision came down, we can petition the government to change the way such conflicts are resolved.
Of course, this leads to the question: Was Trump also "totalitarian" in his rescinding of the guidance that Title IX applies to trans people? After all, it was because of those guidelines that Grimm's case was likely to prevail...at which time the bigots "ran to the boss to get them to implement a decision so they could force us to comply with their way."
Shouldn't you be upset that Trump rescinded the guidelines?
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It's that approach of running to and using an authority to force your dissenters into compliance rather than working with them and coming to an agreement that I find distasteful.
Libertarian claptrap, as usual.
So you don't like democracy. Because you've just described how democracy works: We as a society make a decision. If you don't like that decision, you are free to try and persuade others so that we can use that authority to change our minds.
Exactly how do you think you can resolve a conflict without at some point "forcing a dissenter into compliance"?
We can't both eat the cookie. Someone's going to have to be "forced" to give it up and let the other eat it.
Who makes that decision when neither is willing to relent? What do we do when we see that our guidelines for making that decision violate other principles that we hold dear?
Or do you not have any responsibilities under the social contract you purposefully and willfully signed when you agreed to citizenship?
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