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<blockquote data-quote="Seadog" data-source="post: 1536097" data-attributes="member: 4129">Wow. I think this post nailed it for me, and everything became so much clearer. It's never been about equal rules, it's about heads I win, tails you lose. Religion used to be above reproach. If it was illogical, inconstant, ridiculous, involved things that would absolutely be crimes (sikhs bringing daggers to school, rabbis sucking the foreskins of babies, smoking weed) through the lens of religion all of a sudden it became perfectly fine, because hey you can't question people's religious belief. Indeed that was the entire trope behind the flying spaghetti monster. Flash forward to 2021, and request a religious exemption to the vaccine, and all of a sudden that's no longer the case. Turns out you *can* question someone's religion and call BS. Same thing with the super-straight/super-gay meme. Sexuality used to be a personal thing, you have no right to question or judge - but as soon as that's turned on it's head to say &quot;I like women, but women who were born women and have vaginas&quot; all of a sudden your sexuality is no longer valid, *can* be questioned, and is wrong. I've generally played by the &quot;tell me what the rules are in the broadest sense, and I'll stay within them&quot;, and I think even going back to the Magna Carta that was the whole idea. Lay down a ground work of rules so that someone more powerful can't just arbitrarily send his challengers, enemies, and ppl who annoy him to jail, and society as a whole will be better off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Seadog, post: 1536097, member: 4129"] Wow. I think this post nailed it for me, and everything became so much clearer. It's never been about equal rules, it's about heads I win, tails you lose. Religion used to be above reproach. If it was illogical, inconstant, ridiculous, involved things that would absolutely be crimes (sikhs bringing daggers to school, rabbis sucking the foreskins of babies, smoking weed) through the lens of religion all of a sudden it became perfectly fine, because hey you can't question people's religious belief. Indeed that was the entire trope behind the flying spaghetti monster. Flash forward to 2021, and request a religious exemption to the vaccine, and all of a sudden that's no longer the case. Turns out you *can* question someone's religion and call BS. Same thing with the super-straight/super-gay meme. Sexuality used to be a personal thing, you have no right to question or judge - but as soon as that's turned on it's head to say "I like women, but women who were born women and have vaginas" all of a sudden your sexuality is no longer valid, *can* be questioned, and is wrong. I've generally played by the "tell me what the rules are in the broadest sense, and I'll stay within them", and I think even going back to the Magna Carta that was the whole idea. Lay down a ground work of rules so that someone more powerful can't just arbitrarily send his challengers, enemies, and ppl who annoy him to jail, and society as a whole will be better off. [/QUOTE]

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