# Two Completly Unrelated Debates \[furries/quotations\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 24, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828 "2009-01-24T21:22:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828/1 "2009-01-24T21:22:54Z")
Great Debates is rather intimidating, so these are two OPs I’ve wanted to post for a while. Firstly: In a thread about ‘The next Civil Rights movement’, someone had mentioned furries. Curious, I asked about it, but she never really responded. So my question is: 1. How much discrimination is there against furries? 2. How much of it is of the quantifiable type, e.g. refusal of resources, membership, shunning, etc. 3. Are there enough furries/open furries to lead a civil rights movement? * * * Secondly, in another thread, I had quoted something as a joke, and someone had said that ‘Quotations are meaningless. Show me what _you_ think.’ I disagree. You quote when someone says something better than you ever could. Becasue of the myraid amounts of discussion all over the world and through time, anyone could find a quote, for any position, which would show what they think. Thus, a quote is simply a rhetorical device. Mods, feel free to move/split/split and move this thread. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828/2 "2009-01-24T21:31:17Z")
1. Hobbyists are not a civil category and should not ever be considered such. When they are I am going to start the ‘Eve-Online Players’ PAC. 2. The reference you are referring to was tongue in cheek because they were quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828/3 "2009-01-24T21:51:12Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > 1. Hobbyists are not a civil category and should not ever be considered such. When they are I am going to start the ‘Eve-Online Players’ PAC. > > 2. The reference you are referring to was tongue in cheek because they were quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828/4 "2009-01-24T22:00:42Z")
TGINFF edit: fix caps ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828/5 "2009-01-26T09:07:08Z")
Wow. That was quick. I think my last OP was an order of magnitude longer than this entire thread will be when it’s locked. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-completly-unrelated-debates-furries-quotations/482828/6 "2009-01-26T09:57:11Z")
Would it have killed you to start two separate threads?