Originally posted by Rac80
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You claim that you have the right to force your morality on others (by voting yes on prop 8). However, in the same breath, you claim that others do not have a right to force their morality on you. Which is it? Either people can force their morality on others, or they can't. You can't claim that you have a right to enforce your morality, but then claim that others can't do the same thing to you. That is hypocritical in the extreme.
I've seen this same argument from smokers. "I have a RIGHT to smoke. It is a free country! People don't have a right to tell me what I can and can't do to myself!"
Alright. That's why I don't support alcohol bans. But I do support drunk driving bans. Why? Cause drunk driving can hurt ME. And so can smoking. People can do whatever they want, believe whatever they want, provided that they are only affecting themselves. A smoker says that they have a right not to be interfered with; well, I say that I have that same right.
That is the nature of a society. Each of us has a right not to be interfered with for the nature of our beliefs... but only if we aren't hurting others. For by hurting others a person interferes with other people, and that isn't allowed. That's what Freedom is. The right not to interfere or be interfered with.
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