No..by condemning people you are in fact expressing intolerance for their behavior. You may not actively suppress their behavior, but you definitely believe they should not act that way. That's what it means to condemn.
I believe that people should not be overprotected from themselves, so while I condemn some behavior, based on my own personal assessment, so long as they do not harm others, I really do not care what they do to themselves.
Maybe this is difficult for you to understand. My opinions are informed by what I think is right or wrong
for me. I am not the judge of anyone else's life, but at the same time, I do assess others through the same standard I hold for myself (which everyone does).
Just like I do not deride myself unduly for simply failing to live up to my own standard (just a lesson to be learned), I do not deride others for doing so. Now I suppose if you were one of these people who really beat themselves up over the least little error then I would expect you to have some trouble differentiating condemning specific behavior from demonizing the person wholesale.
Don't be obtuse. Obviously you have the physical ability to make the excuse. I was saying you can't do so to the benefit of your argument. Obviously.
Yet again, I did, regardless of whether you disagree that it benefits the argument.
You refuse to disclose what the problem with the behavior is.
Again: obviously.
Because that thread is not primarily about homosexuality and I do not intend to derail it. You seem to want me to argue against homosexuality even though that thread is about demonizing people in general.
Perhaps that would simply make it easier for you to demonize people.
My belief is that people are free to make their own mistakes. I am not the final arbiter of anyone's morality but my own.
That you consider it a mistake means you subscribe to some notion of universal morality. It appears you merely lack the conviction to explain yourself.
My conviction is just fine, and if you wish to engage me on the topic in a new thread dedicated to the subject, I would be happy to oblige. And everyone applies their own sense of morality to others. I have yet to see anyone claim that torture and murder is
okay by them if you happen to live in the right culture or something.
Much like I condemn child molesters, muggers, sexual predators, and other such criminal deviants? That's fine... I have no problem condemning them and having them removed from society.
Do you condemn anything that is not criminal? What about lying (just as an example)?
