Only gay sex doesn't involve hurting and deceiving the people who love and trust you the most. This is why people are happy that the list was leaked. Not many people can empathize with a cheater, but they can easily remember a time when they were victimized by someone being a piece of shit.
I understand what you're saying, and I understand where the sentiment is coming from. I just think these feelings are not a good basis for conducting punishment in a civil society. It's vengeance by proxy, not justice.
I think the example of gay sex holds, because although you see no harm done with it, some people do based on their own moral compass. Not saying they're right--they're not. I'm saying the people who would want gays to be punished outside the law follow a very similar thought process, and their sense of right and wrong is not a valid criteria for justice in a civil society.
Hum...It did. Being gay had and still has in some places a strong taboo surrounding it. Families where gutted when one child outed themselves as gay, and the family couldn't cope with that. Religious families still today resort to exiling family members for that very purpose. People pressured into fitting in the heterosexual mold that later reveal themselves can break appart families, exactly like cheating does.
From the point of view of religious parents, being gay was an offense as worst if not worse than cheating, which can be kept under wraps depending on the situation. It was, to them, a morally disgusting act.
Only gay sex doesn't involve hurting and deceiving the people who love and trust you the most. This is why people are happy that the list was leaked. Not many people can empathize with a cheater, but they can easily remember a time when they were victimized by someone being a piece of shit.
Hey pix, calm down. Been there too.
I understand what you're saying, and I understand where the sentiment is coming from. I just think these feelings are not a good basis for conducting punishment in a civil society. It's vengeance by proxy, not justice.
I think the example of gay sex holds, because although you see no harm done with it, some people do based on their own moral compass. Not saying they're right--they're not. I'm saying the people who would want gays to be punished outside the law follow a very similar thought process, and their sense of right and wrong is not a valid criteria for justice in a civil society.
Until gay sex begins tearing apart families and destroying the lives of partners that loved and trusted their spouses, there is not a connection.
We can agree to disagree.
Hum...It did. Being gay had and still has in some places a strong taboo surrounding it. Families where gutted when one child outed themselves as gay, and the family couldn't cope with that. Religious families still today resort to exiling family members for that very purpose. People pressured into fitting in the heterosexual mold that later reveal themselves can break appart families, exactly like cheating does.
From the point of view of religious parents, being gay was an offense as worst if not worse than cheating, which can be kept under wraps depending on the situation. It was, to them, a morally disgusting act.