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#1101419 - 11/03/05 06:48 AM
Re: Wikipedia
[Re: Chris Buors]
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Super Stoner
 
Registered: 08/30/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: still waters
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Your use of the word "immoral" is part of the problem. It's one thing to say you feel it is vulgar or disgusting because that limits it to only your personal opinion. Use of the word "immoral" implies that there is a "morality" in the first place. By that I mean, a standard or definition that is agreed upon by many people or society at large. To say gays are immoral means that they don't live according to a standard definition of morality.
But you contradict yourself here, don't you? Because on the one hand you claim that you support liberalism and the freedom of consenting adults, if no harm is done to anyone else. But then to say that there is such a thing as morality, by which people can be judged... that's the problem in your argument.
It might help to explain what you mean by "immoral". What is your morality then, and if there is such a thing as morality, who decided it and where did it come from?
Religions are a source of morality, and by now we should know that their definition of morality can be very different. If you want to raise the ugly spectre of morality, you risk making the same mistakes as they did. If gays are to be judged as immoral by your or anyone elses standards, the next step would be to take morality very seriously... morality becomes a concern in the forefront of the state, if a devout moralistic leader takes charge ie. like George Bush. In fact George Bush's attitude and yours are very similar on this, not different as you earlier implied.
So what is morality then, and why choose to use that word to describe what gays are?
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#1101422 - 11/03/05 07:10 AM
Re: Wikipedia
[Re: Ferguson Station]
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Enthusiast
   
Registered: 10/14/05
Posts: 371
Loc: Further East than I'd like
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However, it now seems that this thread has turned into a platform for Chris Buors to promote his hatred of gays because he objected to a Wiki-page bio of him that referenced his negative public comments on gays.
This thread, and the next one I started as well. :sigh:
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My view is that, * if the Wiki-page was intended to provide accurate knowledge about cannabis and about the evolution of the cannabis culture in Canada, then reference to Chris Buors' homophobic hatred of gays is completely irrelevant; however, * if the Wiki-page was intended to provide accurate information about Chris Buors, then all his public positions are fair game for possible inclusion in the Wiki-page. Let the reader decide on their own what they think of such hatred and the man.
Chris is of biographical interest to Wiki because he is a cannabis activist who has stood for office. Although he is not of interest to Wiki as a thinker on homosexual matters, per se, his views are of interest in the context of one who has stood for political office.
BTW, I believe him when he says he does not hate. Semantically, -phobe runs the gamut from hate to fear to simply averse.
In the context of this thread, it is of interest that a Wiki biographical subject feels misrepresented, but no amount of discussion seems to lead to closure. So, I propose we turn the situation on this thread and its readers- who have had an ample airing of Chris' views- to advantage for all involved:
Note Wiki article is a locked version, for the poll.
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