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So, once again, people who rely on the slippery slope fallacy while avoiding giving their opinion on gay marriage itself, as opposed to some improbable slippery slope, are generally just trying to cover up their bigotry with false logic.
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Ah, there's the keyword: Generalization. Speculation's a good one here, too.
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If that is not the case, they are invited and have had ample opportunity to make a non bigoted case against gay marriage, one that doesn't include a well known type of faulty logic.
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It's a little more well-known as a type of logic than as a type of faulty logic. There's a lot of myspacers out there.
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That is very faulty logic.
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Not in the context, at the least. I'm trying to pin down willravel's concept of bigotry. As of that post, it fit.
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That doesn't mean that in reality these types of perspectives aren't dependent on bigotry.
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Are you making a correlative generalization, or are you arguing something more substantive? If the latter, you need to elaborate. If the former, well, that sounds suspiciously like guilt by association to me.
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Smoking is a developed habit. Homosexuality is a way of being which one does not choose. You're welcome to list other laws, but I'm pretty sure that if you find a law against a way of being instead of a choice we'll have found a prejudiced law.
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Gay marriage laws prevent a specific kind of behavior, they don't prevent homosexuality. But I'll take the more important point below.
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I'm saying that in this case, it's bigotry because homosexuals are inherently homosexual, it's as much a part of them as having 10 fingers or a talent for music. Or having a certain color of skin, which is what sparks "bigotry" in my mind.
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Smokers, fat people, illicit drug users, Republicans, Democrats, the poor, the rich, union members, abortion providers, abortion seekers, muslims, christians, jews, scientologists, vegans, bikers, Carlos Mencia fans...
Anyone else I should add to the list of groups you can hate without being bigoted?