I agree with the extremists thing. Extremists always think they're doing the right thing.
Once I leave the US though, this argument doesn't work as well - because the issues at hand change. There are plenty of places where I think that people may think that they're doing the right thing - and that suppressing women's rights is the right thing. Witness FGM in Africa. I don't think men encourage it because they think they're doing evil, I genuinely think that they believe they're doing the right thing in putting women under their power. In these cases, the answer is pretty clear cut. In the US though, I think even the majority of anti-abortion people think that women should have some form of equal rights, they just can't figure out what equal means.
In the US though, I think a lot of your opponents believe that they are putting the interests of the fetus first, regardless of how much damage they end up doing later on. I think though that trying to confuse the two groups has gotten more then one group into trouble.
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Date: 2008-07-17 01:08 am (UTC)Once I leave the US though, this argument doesn't work as well - because the issues at hand change. There are plenty of places where I think that people may think that they're doing the right thing - and that suppressing women's rights is the right thing. Witness FGM in Africa. I don't think men encourage it because they think they're doing evil, I genuinely think that they believe they're doing the right thing in putting women under their power. In these cases, the answer is pretty clear cut. In the US though, I think even the majority of anti-abortion people think that women should have some form of equal rights, they just can't figure out what equal means.
In the US though, I think a lot of your opponents believe that they are putting the interests of the fetus first, regardless of how much damage they end up doing later on. I think though that trying to confuse the two groups has gotten more then one group into trouble.