Quote:"Your rights end where mine begin," is a pretty terrifying view to take, imo. I think that we all share that view to a point--and many people share it absolutely without even understanding the implications of it. What if she decides it's her right to unleash a verbal assault on a gay couple in public? When do the couple's rights kick in?

 

I have a pretty simple philosophy: live and let live. You go about your life as you choose to live it, so long as it's not bringing tangible harm to others, and I'll leave you alone and live mine. A gay couple holding hands or getting married is not harming you, nor is that dude with an important book who's standing on a park bench shouting about how that gay couple is going to condemn all of humanity to a terrible end. I think most of the world's problems could be solved if we'd just learn to mind our own damn business, tbqh.

I've always felt the same about the live and let live. Despite some of my own panty twisting on here about several topics in which Christians are generally against, I've come to the personal conclusion that these are not for me to rage against. I may not agree but if people want to live as they do, then so be it. I don't have to agree. But I don't have to be a shrilling banshee about it either.


That being said, I feel that folks who really feel this way about rights in general and not personal harm or things along those lines....they're probably pretty close-minded and unable to see other people's point of view at all. To be open minded doesn't mean you agree, it just means you are willing to hear the other person out and perhaps just agree to disagree in the end. My friend is very close-minded, sadly. There are two specific subjects I refuse to discuss with her because it causes a great deal of conflict and she will argue it into the ground because they are subjects in which she feels someone's rights end where hers begins. I admire her passion, I just can't agree with her.

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