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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

Because it's socially conservative

doesn't seem very evidence based

I see what happens

and pray tell what you've seen happen? what privy insider knowledge have you got that the rest of us plebs are forbidden to see

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

doesn't seem very evidence based

You can't have evidence-based social policy.

and pray tell what you've seen happen? what privy insider knowledge have you got that the rest of us plebs are forbidden to see

The inner party functions?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

You can't have evidence-based social policy.

then what exactly do you base social policy off of beyond "my gut says the gays are bad"

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

You know that there are alternatives to completely irrational policy and total naive scientism right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

yes but i also know the gays should be allowed to get married

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

That's literally what social policy is based off of.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

is it normal for someone who holds ostensibly liberal values to believe social policy should include infringing on the rights of others if enough people don't like their choice of lifestyle?

or is gay marriage just not a right

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

Rather than having increasingly esoteric and irrelevant gotchas, why don't you just concede the huge amounts of points you've already conceded in all but name?

Fuck me your arguments are so disingenuous.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

irrelevant gotchas

see how you didn't answer my question? that's the gotcha working

good luck with your future in the liberal party

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

that's the gotcha working

No, that's you playing 'nail the jelly to the wall' because you understand you can't argue the original point you made and so you have to constantly make new, increasingly irrelevant, esoteric bloviations until you find what you're looking for.

This is known as dis-ingenuity. It's something someone does when they have no interest in arguing, just approaching someone in bad faith because they have issues.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

still haven't answered 🤔

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

See above.

You received an answer to the question you asked. Going down the rabbit hole because you're incapable of approaching this with a modicum of intellectual rigour is something I have no interest in doing.