@tybee tyrant
"'Incest is a sin now?'
it's not as long as you keep it in the family."
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@FMG
"3. Having sex with animals is wrong because animals are not people. Non sentient, non sapient."
Actually, most of them are as sentient as any human. What on Earth could lead you to believe that animals aren't sentient??
And to me, the issue is not so much that they're non-human but that they can't give informed consent. If they could, then I wouldn't really be able to see what the problem was. Same with the whole "alien" scenario. If aliens came to Earth and we could determine beyond a reasonable doubt that they could give informed consent, then I wouldn't really have a problem with people having sex with them, either (as long as it was determined that we wouldn't reproduce any fucked-up interspecies or cause harm through the act).
@IrishSoldierLaddie
"Now, to be completely fair (perhaps too fair), the chick wanted to show up to the prom in a tuxedo. She probably knew that would cause trouble.
Why didn't they just both go in dresses?
I'm not agreeing with this guy at all, just pointing something out."
Yeah, I actually wondered that, too. I totally think the school was being fucktards, but I actually remember saying to myself, "Well, they could've both gone in dresses... Just sayin'."
But then again, they probably wouldn't've had a problem with the tux if she weren't bringing a girl as her date. Remember "Mean Girls"? Janis went to the prom in a purple tuxedo that matched Damian's, and the school clearly didn't have an issue, since they let her go up on stage as a Spring Fling Queen nominee with the others. I think most schools wouldn't give a shit what you wore; but because this girl brought attention to herself, they were like, "OH NOEZ!!!"
@#1135777
"If I wanted to bring a ficus tree to prom here (in Canada) they'd probably let me. HOWEVER, I would certainly be ridiculed by the other students. Shouldn't ridicule from peers be punishment enough if they feel strongly about it?"
LOL. I live in Canada too, and now that I think about it, they probably WOULD let you! Those are small, right? I'm sure they'd let me bring a small plant to the prom, and I probably wouldn't even get ridiculed for it. Probably just a few people I know would ask me why I have a plant with me, and think it was funny/cute/weird, but my peers are pretty good about weirdish stuff like that. I brought a Naruto doll that I got for my birthday to school yesterday "to protect me from demons", and brought him to every class, and I received no ridicule from anyone. Once I explained why he was protecting me from demons (I had bad visions in my sleep of demons and scenes from "Paranormal Activity"), they were like, "Oh, OK." We're all used to our peers acting a little quirky now and then.
I'm not going to my prom, anyway. But if I were going, I guarantee you they wouldn't care if I wore a tux and/or brought a girl as my date. My school has no problem whatsoever with homosexuality and it formed a gay-straight alliance this year. I've done Day of Silence at school two years in a row now, and a lot of the teachers and students really support and respect us for doing it. Plus, we have same-sex marriage here, and nothing at all has changed for "the rest of us". I hadn't even realized it had been legalized until I saw a gay couple get married on TLC (I was totally ecstatic). So I really don't get what America's problem is.