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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The persistent inability of ideologues to acknowledge the nuance of any given moral issue was once a continuous source of depression for me.
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The question I always come back to is whether ideologues are consciously hypocrites, or just simple-minded.
Do they honestly think something as complex and irrational as human sexuality can be so tidily controlled? That every man and woman in Canada could reach a consensus on where and when off-colour jokes are appropriate, where and when it's okay to touch someone's elbow, the exact border between professional and social environment? And that having reached a consensus, no person of goodwill would slip up? Do they never make errors in judgement themselves?
Or is is just convenient to pretend the world is so simple so you can malign your political opponents and broadcast your own righteousness.