Anti-SSM argument goes from stupid to... what the heck is this?

[Melchior]

@Broomstick

Actually, I’m pointing and laughing for the most part.

Again, not an argument.

[Antinor01]

@zoid

That’s a truly bizarre statement.
What exactly is it about then?
Are SS couples not seeking equality? If not what hidden agenda do you imagine they are pursuing?

Haven’t you ever heard of the Gay Agenda?? It’s…well it’s a thing that has the…agenda of the gays…to do…something. I must not be gay enough because even I haven’t gotten a copy. The far right seems to know about it though.

[Melchior]

@Fear_Itself

M: An argument isn’t just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can’t. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn’t.
M: Yes it is! It’s not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that’s not just saying ‘No it isn’t.’
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn’t!
A: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
(short pause)
A: No it isn’t.

I saw this when I was 22.

[Melchior]

@zoid

That’s a truly bizarre statement.
What exactly is it about then?
Are SS couples not seeking equality? If not what hidden agenda do you imagine they are pursuing?

It is a complete fraud to talk about ‘equality’ when the issue is something else entirely.

[Antinor01]

@Melchior

It is a complete fraud to talk about ‘equality’ when the issue is something else entirely.

And what is that issue? also, do you plan on answering my question from post 344?

[Marley23]

@Melchior

I saw this when I was 22.

Did you understand that it wasn’t a lesson on how to conduct an argument?

[Melchior]

@Antinor01

According to you, there’s no such thing, and can’t be any such thing, as same sex marriage. You have discounted judicial, legislative and voter decisions on the matter.

So one final question and then I’m really done discussing this with you. Under what circumstance would you accept that same sex marriage is a real thing?

None. It’s impossible.

[DrCube]

@Melchior

It is a complete fraud to talk about ‘equality’ when the issue is something else entirely.

It’s a fraud to pretend it’s about anything else. What else IS it? Are you the dictionary police?

[Antinor01]

@Melchior

None. It’s impossible.

Then there really is nothing else to talk to you about.

Other people in the thread, his post here is his answer to every possible question or rebuttal.

[The_Hamster_King]

@Melchior

It is a complete fraud to talk about ‘equality’ when the issue is something else entirely.

I too am curious what this other issue is. Please inform us!

[Melchior]

@Antinor01

Then there really is nothing else to talk to you about.

Other people in the thread, his post here is his answer to every possible question or rebuttal.

99% of the posts have been mere assertions of amusement or excoriation, not rebuttal.

[DrCube]

@Melchior

None. It’s impossible.

Well the rest of us will support laws allowing these impossible situations to keep occurring in all 50 states, as they have been for a decade now. Your approval is not needed, and your lack of acceptance of reality is amusing.

[Antinor01]

@Melchior

99% of the posts have been mere assertions of amusement or excoriation, not rebuttal.

It clearly doesn’t matter since you have decided that same sex marriage is impossible. With that being your fallback position, it doesn’t matter what any says. You have made your final decision. For the sake of my family, I’m really glad people like you are rapidly becoming a minority.

[The_Hamster_King]

@Melchior

99% of the posts have been mere assertions of amusement or excoriation, not rebuttal.

I think I’ve done a pretty good job of demolishing your position on linguistic grounds. Are you willing to admit that your use of argumentum ad populum was in error?

[Melchior]

@DrCube

Well the rest of us will support laws allowing these impossible situations to keep occurring in all 50 states, as they have been for a decade now. Your approval is not needed, and your lack of acceptance of reality is amusing.

assertions of amusement. not argument

[Steve_MB]

@Melchior

‘Gay marriage’ is like ‘unburnable gasoline’. If you can’t burn it, it’s not gasoline.

If I hold a jar of gasoline underwater, what substance does it transform into?

[Trinopus]

@Melchior

Haven’t you heard of arranged marriages? For most of human history, and still today (especially in some Asian countries), marriages were arranged by parents.

And that changed. This isn’t practiced any more in a lot of places that used to practice it. (England, for instance.)

Yoo hoo! Customs! Change! You just gave an example of it!

[Melchior]

@The_Hamster_King

I think I’ve done a pretty good job of demolishing your position on linguistic grounds. Are you willing to admit that your use of argumentum ad populum was in error?

No, it is not.

[Melchior]

@Trinopus

And that changed. This isn’t practiced any more in a lot of places that used to practice it. (England, for instance.)

Yoo hoo! Customs! Change! You just gave an example of it!

and the result has been an overwhelming success…right?
http://www.vanneman.umd.edu/socy441/trends/divorce.jpg

Our grandparents’ or at least great-grandparents marriages were arranged. My grandparents’ were, I believe. No divorce in my family tree that I know of.

[The_Hamster_King]

@Melchior

No, it is not.

Are you a linguistic prescriptivist? Or is Wikipedia in error?