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I was assured that driving over them with your car was a perfectly reasonable response.
My philosophy is pretty much live and let live. I have my thoughts and opinions…they have theirs. I don’t know which of us in the “right”. I just know that’s a big ol’ pathway. We should be able to walk it together.
Ah yes, gay people shouldn’t get upset when they get accused of being predators and pedophiles. Why can’t they just accept that’s it’s a difference of opinion?
Only if they’re also BLM.
The situation where it’s a small town and there are just a couple of them? Yeah, I’d ignore them. Not engage.
But I definitely wouldn’t give them water - it would only keep them there longer. Let the heat drive them away.
If someone calls you a pedophile you don’t know which of you are correct?
On two occasions I’ve accompanied friends to Planned Parenthood for their abortions. Protesters were present both times trying to block our way. I pushed and shoved, yelling “COMING THROUGH”. I might have been rougher than absolutely necessary.
Brilliant. I wish I had that level of self- discipline and fundamental decency. Good on ya’.
That is brilliant!
Seconded.
Yeah, this isn’t one of those ‘both sides’ things.
One thing is sure: there is nothing you can do that will completely stop them, or alter the beliefs or behaviours of all of them, because at any given event, this isn’t all of them.
If you try to persuade today’s idiots not to be idiots, even if you succeed magnificently, tomorrow contains a fresh crop of idiots for you.
Do what you feel is right in response if you feel you must, but don’t exhaust yourself trying to ‘remedy’ or ‘stop’ a problem that is just today’s spillage of idiocy, arising from and fed by a continuous flowing stream of idiocy.
@Mangetout in my brain I read your posts in your charming and soothing Atomic Shrimp voice. Makes my day every time.
I’ve noticed that as well.
You’re very kind 
I’m pondering a related question to this that applies to my own self, and where I think the answer ‘you can’t stop it’ is probably the same (but I think it would be a hijack here so I’ll maybe start a thread).
At the Planned Parenthood that I protested the protestors at, their thing was to try to get us angry while someone else filmed it, so they could then post it online out of context to make us look bad. Our number one instruction was not to let them piss us off enough to lose our tempers. It wasn’t easy.
so you have no problem being physical with people that are not being physical with you?
That’s physical too.