# What motivates people to vote other people's rights away **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261 "2009-11-04T05:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 544
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261/544 "2009-11-10T18:42:47Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I cannot speak for **villa** but I think the problem is people like you keep saying there are rational reasons to oppose SSM yet provide nothing in the way of actual reasonable arguments you assert exist to back this up. There is _reasoned_, _rational_ arguments on both sides of this. The fact that you can’t see them (which does not mean you have to agree with them) ------and need to demonize your opponents with labels like “homophobe”-----says more about your blindness than the quality of their argument. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261)._