<< The joker knows it only too well.
That is exactly why he wrote it.
He is trying to get his buddies and buddettes to get with the program of injecting themselves into our society.
He wants to BE the 'power curve'. >>
But wouldn't that mean that he and they were but the manifestation of evil?
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"But wouldn't that mean that he and they were but the manifestation of evil?"
Yes. But we are less sensitive to evil in the world.
There is so much evil we are shutting down so we can somehow make sense of our daily lives.
The young man writing the posted article is in real pain.
He is trying to justify his existence by challenging our right to healthy lives.
He is influenced by his destructive life-style.
He wants to make everyone who does not share his demon; suffer for not wanting to share the illness of homosexuality.