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"Outrage" - Documentary Outs Gay Politicians Who Fight Gay Rights

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milomorris:

--- Quote from: garycottle on April 29, 2009, 06:14:12 am ---Again, there is no uniform concept of decency. 

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Nope. But there sure are boundaries around what is considered decent and what is considered indecent. The further one goes outside those boundaries, fewer and fewer people find one's behavior decent.

delalluvia:

--- Quote from: milomorris on April 29, 2009, 04:34:46 pm ---You're right, this conversation about male prostitutes is off topic. As for the film, I think we both should go see it, and then return to discussing its merits or lack thereof.

But let me ask the Bettermost crowd here a question. Let's suppose that these politicians did indeed do intentional harm to the equality of sexual minorities. How does outing them in a film solve any problems?

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Those people who care about hypocrisy in our elected officials - and their acts - will withdraw their support from him/her and s/he therefore loses the ability to do further harm.

injest:
We all set our own boundaries.  We all make our own choices.  Some of us make unpopular choices.  This is true of gay people just as well as straight people.  Is there a price to be paid for making choices that are unpopular?  Of course.  But just because something is unpopular doesn't make it wrong.  Just as something that is popular, and thus wins favor, doesn't make it right.

Do I adopt the boundaries set for me by the prevailing culture in which I live?  I often times do, yes.  It is generally easier to just go along to get along.  And usually the compromises I make with my own personal sense of morality or sense of self aren't that important to me.  But I would consider breaking convention and even the law if I felt strongly about something.  I think people sometimes need to follow their own conscience and heart regardless of the possible consequences.  This is the difference between being your own person and being a bootlicker.

or the difference between someone that has people he loves and someone that is alone in the world.

You make compromises for the people you love, sometimes those compromises are TO the people and sometimes they are FOR the people you love.

injest:
so if you felt it was moral to steal from a store if the clerk is rude....and the person you love doesnt'...you feel that they should accept you the way you are, even though you could wind up in jail...or else they don't really love you??

injest:
the point I am making that decency or morality doesn't exist in a vaccuum. they didn't just develop to oppress people. They come into being from a desire to coexist peacefully.

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