# What motivates people to vote other people's rights away

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**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")\
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**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261/552 "2009-11-10T19:05:25Z")

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> [@Algorithm](#):
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> You keep making this assertion. Could you please back it up by pointing out a “reasoned, rational” argument on the anti-SSM side?
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> Thanks in advance.

Assuming you’re an adult I have to wonder where you have been. In any event, I have no intention of being drawn into the anti-SSM debate.

I do know, however, that there are reasonable, thoughtful, intelligent people on both sides of this—and both have reasonable arguments.

IME, it’s only the most visceral, partisan zealots that are so blind to their opponents that they have no approach but to demonize.

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