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Veknoid_Outcast on 05 November 2016
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padib said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

So you'd be friends with someone who subscribed to the neo-Nazi party? You'd be friends with someone who thinks women shouldn't vote?

I think a severe gap in political affiliation is perfect grounds for the end of a relationship.

If the person is intelligent and can explain why they think the way they think, I would not have a problem with them because they are thinking the way they do based on a conviction, on a thought.

It's their right to believe in what they do. The only basis I judge my friendships on, at this level, is intelligence.

If they are just being utter morons and can't express why they think what they do, it's an immediate turn off for me.

And I can tell you I have a few anti-Trump "friends" on facebook that just spew stupidity. So stupidity transcends ideology, and to me that's the real deal-breaker.

I have had people completely ignore me because I was a creationist, had a whole group of co-workers shun me at work (really) and unfriend me on facebook (that I didn't care as much about) because I said my desire was to live in a heterosexual world.

Even if they disagree, it's my right to believe what I do. And if I can't explain myself, or at least prove that I'm trying to give a reason for the way I think, then and only then should it be clear that I'm just a moron, and I deserve to be shamed.

But if I'm trying to understand, and it's just my honest belief or conviction, who is anyone to judge me?

They can try to explain to me why I'm wrong and I'm open to it, but why judge? Nobody should judge on the way a person thinks, unless (imho) the person is just not making any effort at all.

OK...but that's taking the cultural relativism argument to a wild extreme. Sorry I just can't agree with that philosophy. Some things are wrong and worth fighting against, even worth dying for. Some of the most dangerous men in history were intelligent and convinced of their righteousness. It didn't make them any less dangerous. If anything it made them more dangerous.