It's infuriating that intellectual arguments are started but then suddenly stopped.
Perry counters the idea we should enact laws protecting homosexuality by comparing it to the idea that we should enact laws protecting alcoholism. But the question is harm. The harms of alcoholism are not in dispute. There is no argument (aside from certain religious ones) that homosexuality is harmful that holds up under scrutiny. It's a bad comparison. It's a fine argument type he is using (noteworthy because so often the arguments from the right are entirely nonsensical) but the content is wrong.
The analogy doesn't fit.
But I don't think the title is right. What was the second offensive comment he used? That he didn't know something? He plead (or had real) ignorance of the psychological consensus on homosexuality. That's hardly offensive. It's just effortless denial. Standard boilerplate. What's the second offensive comment that he used to justify the first (ie, alcoholism and homosexuality)?
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Date: 2014-06-26 03:34 am (UTC)Perry counters the idea we should enact laws protecting homosexuality by comparing it to the idea that we should enact laws protecting alcoholism. But the question is harm. The harms of alcoholism are not in dispute. There is no argument (aside from certain religious ones) that homosexuality is harmful that holds up under scrutiny. It's a bad comparison. It's a fine argument type he is using (noteworthy because so often the arguments from the right are entirely nonsensical) but the content is wrong.
The analogy doesn't fit.
But I don't think the title is right. What was the second offensive comment he used?
That he didn't know something? He plead (or had real) ignorance of the psychological consensus on homosexuality. That's hardly offensive. It's just effortless denial. Standard boilerplate. What's the second offensive comment that he used to justify the first (ie, alcoholism and homosexuality)?