Reply #29: I think you're making an erroneous inference

[LanternWaste]

Again, I think you're inferring that I think a law is or is not "ok". I haven't given my opinion on that one way or the other, nor have I stated that I think it's the way things should work in the perfect universe. However, it is how things are, whether we like them or not.

If enough people say that gays shouldn't marry, you can bet that there will be laws fobidding it. And when enough people think that gay marriage is a valid social contract, you can bet that gay marriage will be protected by law. And if, by some freak of culture, enough people thought that slavery should be legal again, you can safely assume that it will be made into law.

And let me state (again) that I'm *not* saying it would be o-kay on way or the other. It would simply *be*, irrespective of my (or your) opinion on it.

If enough people in our culture want a thing to happen, it will get legislated into existence sooner or later and on the other flip of the coin, if enough people didn't want a thing, it too would be legislated out of existence. And both instances would become convetional and traditional until the pedulum swung the other way.

But please, don't imply that I think one thing or another is "ok" simply because it is (or, at the very least, because I *believe* it simply is). Acknowledging a thing is very different from condoning it or tolerating it.

Edited for clarity