recoveringyankee
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I've never threatened to rip someone's head off simply because that person lives a slightly different lifestyle than I do or believes something different than I.
Perhaps not but you DID say that you could do violence upon somebody "...come off as an ignorant, intolerant dick that I start getting angry and potentially violent.", is that true or just Internet bravado?
I have never alienated or demonized someone simply because I don't understand or can't accept why they believe what they do, or why they live life a certain way.
That is part of the problem that is plaguing society today, moral ambiguity, there is evil in this world, (I am not implying that homosexuality is evil, a sin, a choice, or the result of DNA) and evil should never be accepted or tolerated, the only question is which side of that line does homosexuality land? I know that I am not a wise enough person to make that call and neither are you.
So yeah, actually, I'd like to think I am just a bit better than someone who actually does do those things.
The hubris of man knows no bounds.
Also, Yankee. "Stick and stones" may work for kids, but the fact is that it's a bald-faced lie. Words can and do hurt, in some cases more than a fist, a knife or a bullet ever could. If it works for you, then that's just great, all you're doing is delaying the inevitable.
Words have no power beyond that which the receiver grants to them. That simple fact is another thing that has been lost to this society, and we are all worse off for it, except for all the psychiatrists, counselors and "life coaches" out there.
The "Sticks and Stones" song works for kids and was used as practice to develop a copping mechanism that would serve them well as adults.