The Future of Social Conservatism

[Meeker]

I think lumping them all together is a mistake. I do think gay marriage is inevitable because it's an issue that revoles around inclusiveness and understanding. As more people meet more openly gay people they're more and more OK with the idea. Unless gay people start going back into the closet en masse, this is a change that is going to happen eventually.

Marijuana legalization and abortion are different though. Attitudes toward those actions shift overtime for various reasons. Restriction on marijuana usage only really took off in the early 20th century. Restrictions on abortions didn't really appear until the mid-19th century.

[Meeker]

Social conservatism by definition can't die. The issues that are "socially conservative" will just change.

well, what exactly comes next...bestiality, necrophilia?

Surely you can see the difference in consensual sexual activity between two adults and sexual activity between an adult and a horse or a dead body.

[Meeker]

Social conservatism by definition can't die. The issues that are "socially conservative" will just change.

well, what exactly comes next...bestiality, necrophilia?

Surely you can see the difference in consensual sexual activity between two adults and sexual activity between an adult and a horse or a dead body.

what if the dead person gave his consent before he died...is it then ok in your eyes?

If it was explicitly in his/her will... and there was no public safety concern... sure.

[Meeker]

If it was explicitly in his/her will... and there was no public safety concern... sure.

huh?  what's he gonna do, come back to life and demand his rights?!

I meant something like keeping the body around in your home.

[Meeker]

If it was explicitly in his/her will... and there was no public safety concern... sure.

huh?  what's he gonna do, come back to life and demand his rights?!

I meant something like keeping the body around in your home.

Please tell me you're Van Der Blub and this isn't a real discussion...

You started it.

[Meeker]

If it was explicitly in his/her will... and there was no public safety concern... sure.

huh?  what's he gonna do, come back to life and demand his rights?!

I meant something like keeping the body around in your home.

Please tell me you're Van Der Blub and this isn't a real discussion...

You started it.

I'm not the one defending necrophilia, Blub

Neither am I.