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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby The Tofu Islands » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:41 pm

Ifreann wrote:Another one is "Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife". Should that be illegal too?

You should've gone for the "no gods before me" one.
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Postby The Tofu Islands » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:41 pm

No Names Left Damn It wrote:Well, my Bible says thou shalt not kill at Exodus 20:13 and again thou shalt not kill at Deuteronomy 6:17.

I mentioned GnI because I'm pretty sure ey's read the original text. I remember it as kill as well.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Neo Art » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:46 pm

You-Gi-Owe wrote:
Good vs. Evil. No compromise.


You're right, of course, evil should never be compromised with. Which is why such abominations of civil rights such as abortion and marriage restrictions should be fought, tooth and nail, at every opportunity. Until such outdated, outmoded, and downright hateful viewpoints are relegated to the dustbin of history, to sit next to such abominations as slavery, male only voting, the Holocaust, Japanese internment, and Jim Crow.

Where they belong.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Conserative Morality » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:48 pm

Neo Art wrote:You're right, of course, evil should never be compromised with. Which is why such abominations of civil rights such as abortion and marriage restrictions should be fought, tooth and nail, at every opportunity. Until such outdated, outmoded, and downright hateful viewpoints are relegated to the dustbin of history, to sit next to such abominations as slavery, male only voting, the Holocaust, Japanese internment, and Jim Crow.

Where they belong.

I believe a :clap: is in order.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby No Names Left Damn It » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:49 pm

The Tofu Islands wrote:I mentioned GnI because I'm pretty sure ey's read the original text. I remember it as kill as well.


I know you mentioned GnI, but as I was close at hand I thought I'd go to the effort of proving you right.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby You-Gi-Owe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:50 pm

Neo Art wrote:
You-Gi-Owe wrote:
Good vs. Evil. No compromise.


You're right, of course, evil should never be compromised with. Which is why such abominations of civil rights such as abortion and marriage restrictions should be fought, tooth and nail, at every opportunity. Until such outdated, outmoded, and downright hateful viewpoints are relegated to the dustbin of history, to sit next to such abominations as slavery, male only voting, the Holocaust, Japanese internment, and Jim Crow.

Where they belong.

Where as I believe the evil of abortion should be defeated and that the evil of homosexuality should be prosecuted. No quarter asked, none to be given.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:50 pm

Neo Art wrote:
You-Gi-Owe wrote:
Good vs. Evil. No compromise.


You're right, of course, evil should never be compromised with. Which is why such abominations of civil rights such as abortion and marriage restrictions should be fought, tooth and nail, at every opportunity. Until such outdated, outmoded, and downright hateful viewpoints are relegated to the dustbin of history, to sit next to such abominations as slavery, male only voting, the Holocaust, Japanese internment, and Jim Crow.

Where they belong.


Best post ever Neo Art. You are absolutely right. Any infringement of uniquivocal equal human rights is truly evil, if that is, of course, what you mean.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Ifreann » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:51 pm

The Tofu Islands wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Another one is "Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife". Should that be illegal too?

You should've gone for the "no gods before me" one.

I think they're both equally impossible to enforce.

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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:52 pm

You-Gi-Owe wrote:Where as I believe the evil of abortion should be defeated and that the evil of homosexuality should be prosecuted. No quarter asked, none to be given.


Evil is subjective sir. I think it's evil that I get denied equal healthcare and criminals get the best healthcare in the nation. I think it's evil that only 50% of the population is guaranteed healthcare. You disagree with both of my ideas. I also think its evil that homosexuality is so taboo.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby The Tofu Islands » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:53 pm

No Names Left Damn It wrote:I know you mentioned GnI, but as I was close at hand I thought I'd go to the effort of proving you right.

Seeing as I'm pretty sure that some translations say "murder", just a particular translation's word doesn't prove anything. Hence, original text question.

You-Gi-Owe wrote:Where as I believe the evil of abortion should be defeated and that the evil of homosexuality should be prosecuted. No quarter asked, none to be given.

Why is homosexuality an evil? And why is abortion evil? (Or, at least, more evil then enslaving mothers to embryos?)
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Neo Art » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:55 pm

You-Gi-Owe wrote:
Neo Art wrote:
You-Gi-Owe wrote:
Good vs. Evil. No compromise.


You're right, of course, evil should never be compromised with. Which is why such abominations of civil rights such as abortion and marriage restrictions should be fought, tooth and nail, at every opportunity. Until such outdated, outmoded, and downright hateful viewpoints are relegated to the dustbin of history, to sit next to such abominations as slavery, male only voting, the Holocaust, Japanese internment, and Jim Crow.

Where they belong.

Where as I believe the evil of abortion should be defeated and that the evil of homosexuality should be prosecuted. No quarter asked, none to be given.


Yes, I know you believe that. And, before you there were people who believed that blacks should be slaves, jews should be extermined, women shouldn't be allowed to vote, and that someone with part negro blood meant that she needed to sit in the back of the bus.

Which makes you, like your bretherin before you, officially "part of the problem", and equally deserving of the same fate. To rage against a world that no longer cares for your particular brand of hate, until you finally fade into obscurity where you belong. And as it happened to them, I fear it shall happen to you. It's only a matter of time.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby No Names Left Damn It » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:56 pm

The Tofu Islands wrote:Seeing as I'm pretty sure that some translations say "murder", just a particular translation's word doesn't prove anything. Hence, original text question.


Who says mine wasn't in Ancient Greek?
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Postby The Tofu Islands » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:57 pm

No Names Left Damn It wrote:Who says mine wasn't in Ancient Greek?

It'd need to be Hebrew. And I was guessing, was I right?
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:00 pm

The Tofu Islands wrote:
No Names Left Damn It wrote:Who says mine wasn't in Ancient Greek?

It'd need to be Hebrew. And I was guessing, was I right?


There is an ancient greek version of the Bible.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby The Tofu Islands » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:00 pm

South East Europe wrote:There is an ancient greek version of the Bible.

However ancient Greek is not the original text of Exodus.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:03 pm

The Tofu Islands wrote:
South East Europe wrote:There is an ancient greek version of the Bible.

However ancient Greek is not the original text of Exodus.


I suppose you are right.
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