Like I said. It is what it is.
People believe what they want, others do too.
That’s the way freedom works. But it ends when one side steps on the other in the name of THEIR beliefs. ANY side.
And then you have the choice of either resisting it, or complying with it.
“People believe what they want, others do too.
That’s the way freedom works. But it ends when one side steps on the other in the name of THEIR beliefs. ANY side.”
Maybe I’m lucky to have grown up in America, but I don’t consider some priest’s chastisement of my sin to be “stepping on me”. He can have his say, and I can walk away. We don’t have the Spanish Inquisition.
The other “side”, however, is fining and arresting people for not allowing sicko men wearing dresses to hang around in women’s rest rooms. They’re using government to do this, and that is “stepping on people”.
Could you see this coming from the end of anti-sodomy laws?
Ayn Rand’s understanding of human nature makes me think that she could have. Only her revulsion to the concept of Morality could keep her from connecting the two.