Actually, that was precisely Macbeths argument.Uzique The Lesser wrote:
no one is saying that gay marriage is more important or takes precedence over the economy, you fucking dimwit. the much-derided fallacy of those "we should focus on the economy!" arguments is that it presumes the executive, legislature or demos in general can only cope with ONE issue at a time. like all of our attention must be focussed altogether now on one problem, until that is fixed and totally sorted, and then we can move serially onto the next. what sort of fucking reasoning is that? there is absolutely no excuse for delaying a civil rights / social issue - even if it is deemed secondary in importance - because there are 'bigger problems'. that's a very fox news media-based conception of society working. do you presume the people running the state are fucking goldfishes, or something? YOU CAN PURSUE SOLUTIONS TO MORE THAN ONE PROBLEM AT ONCE! it's amazing, i know.Jay wrote:
How about finding work for the 12.3 million people currently without jobs?Macbeth wrote:
I don't like that way of thinking. The "the economy is more important than gay rights" line is infuriating. If you think making sure a suburban family can afford a second vacation and an iPad for the toddler is more important than equal rights than you need to rethink your life values. If everyone isn't equal than none of this is worth it.
or this:
A few thousand people earning the right to marry kind of pales in comparison.
I know you've never been poor, and that being out of work to you means not being able to take a second vacation, or providing an iPad for a toddler, but that's not reality. A strong economy is fundamentally the most important thing this country could possess. Everything else is just frosting on the cake.
here's a strange thought, i know: on days when all the news channels are covering gay marriage, that doesn't mean the people assigned to the task of fixing the economy have taken the day off to snort blow, listen to disco, and anally fist one another. they're still there. shit is still getting done. we don't exist in a world that is ontologically constructed by bill o'reilly's autocue.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat