Why do Americans have this compulsion to tell others that things they do are "wrong", and try to have them outlawed? Do you really care if someone who lives 700 miles away from you is homosexual? Or if someone in another state smokes marijuana? You will never meet these people, and if you do you can choose not to associate with them. What compels us to impress our moral standards on complete strangers?
2006-07-24 12:12:48 · 8 answers · asked by Danzarth 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
They're bored with their own insignificant lives and feel compelled to somehow make themselves feel more important by living vicariously through you via the hurt that they've caused...make sense?
2006-07-24 12:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by sweet ivy lyn 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
To reflect maybe ...
Actually, the problem is that they usually don't keep it private.. A growing number proclaim amsterdam the gay capital of the world, and float around on boats in our canals half or completely naked.. Where jews in the USA have a powerful platform on tv and hollywood, gays have that in my country.
When I go take a walk in our local public park, I find used condoms in children's play grounds. And this is true for half our public parks. This would be just as wrong if done by hetrosexuals, but that seems less common.
So, nothing wrong with what people do in their private life, and the above fact does not say anything about gays in general or whether it's a minority or majority, I don't know.. so no generalizations here.. but the point is, it's not so much what they do in private, rather what they do in public. Rather than equal rights, some seem to want to go much further than that.
2006-07-24 19:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by reageer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your homosexual analogy is wrong. Gay marraige is a lot more than sex. Marraige is about family, not sex. Nobody is saying two people cannot have sex in the privacy of their own home, we just dont want to see it publicly.
Marijuana should be legal in my opinion, tho I dont like the stuff myself. If some fool wants to kill himself on the ****, its their business.
Morals are what made this country great. Moralitly and standards separate us from animals. Without morals people would have sex with little children, animals, and every kind of despicable behavior imaginable would happen. I dont think you would want to live in a world where everything goes, and I am sure I wouldn't.
2006-07-24 19:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by jack f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason "Americans" (and others in other countries, as well) have a "compulsion" to regulate "private" behavior is because they consider the behavior to be immoral. Such people believe that if they tolerate immoral behavior, there will be more of it and virtually everyone will end up being a cynic.
2006-07-24 20:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give Sweet Ivy Lyn the 10 points. She got it right. It's all about our own insecurity. If you are confident in yourself, confident in your choices, confident in your parenting abilities, it doesn't matter what anyone does in private or public--it doesn't affect you or your family.
2006-07-24 19:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by Carrie S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great point.
this is what Griswold vs Connecticut was all about.
Privacy.
Because without privacy the government can begin to legislate very very personal things in our lives that should remain our right.
2006-07-24 19:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These people are SO Bored with thier own lives they have to have someone to pick on.
2006-07-24 19:24:51 · answer #7 · answered by spiritwalker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOES THAT MEAN OTHER 'COUNTRIES' DO NOT CARE ABOUT DRUGS??? WHO CARES ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS..I DON'T...NOT ALL AMERICANS ARE LIKE THE EUROWEENIES YA KNOW>
2006-07-24 19:41:16 · answer #8 · answered by bushfan88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋