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Originally Posted by pan6467
1) Everybody wants what they want and doesn't give a damn about what maybe best for the community. It doesn't seem to matter what the majority wants, or what is best, it matters who speaks the loudest, makes the most noise and has the most money for lawsuits. It doesn't matter if the people are taking away a freedom, all they see is what they want.
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I'll agree with this. I've seen it too often, and I've seen people who try to be voices of reason silenced by sudden, massive ignorance. If a parent at the aformentioned anti-Grease school would have stood up, there would have been an answer of a dozen more parents saying how that parent was trying to corrupt Christian youth with evil Greasyness. I suspect the reason that the above statement is true is ignorance is often silent in this country. Stupid people learn to shut up at an early age, only to have their ignorance vindicated when the loud idiot shouts at the top of his or her lungs. When that battlecry echoes across the newspapers and TV news, it's like a call to arms for idiots. Suddenly everyone has their opinion and every opinion is valid (despite the obvious fallacies and weaknesses of their statements and the logic therein). When someone stands up and says "Jesus would want us to assasinate so-and-so", there are a ton of people who stand and shout "YES!". When someone says "American values are being threatened, so we have to beat up gay people", there are a ton of people who say "YES!"
The one and only solution to this is for those of us who have more than two brain cells (like the good people of TFP, for example) to get the situation under control again. It is necessary for us to use our intelect for the good of others and ourselves. It's up to us to do what we do best: win arguments with dumb people.