I think that's it in a nutshell. It's the same kind of thinking that I found so laughable several years back. We were walking around Market Square in Portsmouth during Market Square Day (sort of a pseudo-fair, if you haven't been), and I had picked up a "choice" sticker from the Planned Parenthood table, and stuck it on my sling (where Stephen, then a couple of months old, was sleeping). Some guy passed me and said "How come you have a baby if you're pro-choice?" As though, by being pro-choice, I were against children, period, and would always have an abortion myself instead of having a child (who was very much planned and wanted). I was dumbstruck -- how can someone be so stupid? -- but it illustrated for me the way these people think. If you're not with them 100%, you must be against them 100%, and since their views are right (because the One True God and One True President tell them so!), everyone else is simply wrong.
Even so, these comments strike a huge blow to my humanism. How can I believe that humans are fundamentally good, when so many are so very mistaken? :lol:
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Date: 2006-09-05 02:56 pm (UTC)Even so, these comments strike a huge blow to my humanism. How can I believe that humans are fundamentally good, when so many are so very mistaken? :lol: