Sunday, November 16, 2008
Pizza analogy (a little silly but still holds true)
Imagine that someone can’t stand Pizza. It disgusts them, makes them sick to their stomach, they don’t like the taste, the smell, they can’t even stand to look at it. Others tell them, “Well then don’t order it!” but that is not good enough. They are so repulsed by pizza and they imagine that there must be many others out there that feel the same way they do so they propose a measure to close down all the pizza places. They tell everyone how unhealthy and greasy and unnatural pizza is and how we cannot sit by and pretend it doesn’t exist, we must actually stop it from being made. Suppose people begin to be swayed by this argument and that a major smear campaign featuring anti-pizza politicians and celebrities and doctors spouting out statistics about pizza related health issues, succeeds in passing this measure and ridding the state of pizza once and for all. While this is an extreme example, the message is the same. Others eating pizza does not directly affect you, you can easily make the choice to eat something else but you will not be content until everyone is as disgusted by pizza as you are. You would be willing to eliminate my right to enjoy pizza just because the thought of it makes you uncomfortable.
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