# 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:** 619
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261/619 "2009-11-10T23:48:27Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I got exactly what I was expecting. At this point, you offering up one of the well-reasoned anti-SSM arguments you claim exist would be the surprise. > > And at this point, you’ve gone from refusing to answer because you cannot, to refusing to answer out of spite. Either way, contributing nothing. > > Does anyone other than raindog know of a valid anti-SSM argument? Perhaps you need to get out more, you know…in the virtual way. If you’re looking for thoughtful, reasoned arguments in opposition to SSM you won’t find them here. But maybe you and **whorfin** are simply trying to draw people into the SSM debate. I mean, unless you’re from Planet Zero you’ve had to have heard them, right? Are you that ill informed? I think not. Still, I was half tempted to simply take the position most advocated by anti-SSM people—on moral grounds. Because my point------that you and “people like you” 😃 are conveniently ignoring as well-------is position neutral. I can make my point from either side of the position. Because at the end of the day even with a less than compelling argument you can’t connect the dots to _fear_ and _hatred_ without a healthy dose of bias and prejudice. And I just don’t think “you people” (hehe) get it. The anti-SSM might be wrong. But when you take that a step further and state that you know what they’re thinking; and that they’re full of fear and hatred you’re committing the exact same crimes that some anti-SSM people do. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motivates-people-to-vote-other-peoples-rights-away/516261)._