We have an important issue here of libertarianism versus traditional conservative views. It is going to come back to bite us on homosexual marriage.
We all know that Free Republic does not tolerate advocacy of homosexual marriage so there's no risk of that agenda gaining ground here, but we need to argue against and intellectually defeat the libertarian arguments, not just zot them (and no, I'm not calling for zotting of anybody in this discussion).
Since we can't zot the libertarians in real life who want to run the Republican Party, let's try to get some debating practice here in cyberspace and learn more about how to effectively argue against those people in the real world outside cyberspace.
Since we can't zot the libertarians in real life who want to run the Republican Party, let's try to get some debating practice here in cyberspace and learn more about how to effectively argue against those people in the real world outside cyberspace.
Kudos for seeing beyond the zot mentality! Zotting has is place, but when taken to extremes has the effect you note of hampering FReepers' effectiveness in the real world.
I note for the record that I'm against same-sex "marriage" - but also against froth-flecked screeds against libertarianism (which IMO is less of a threat to marriage that GOP-e squishiness).