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   RM>> At one time the idea of what was wrong or right was decided by the   
     >> majority. That may not have always worked out well for smaller   
     >> groups of people but I think the only thing worse than the majority   
     >> deciding things is a group representing a tiny percentage of people   
     >> dictating things for everyone else.   
      
   MP>And also this!   
      
   I think part of deciding how bad this is would be looking at how these   
   smaller groups are treated in general. That said, I think they were   
   being treated a lot more fairly in recent years than they used to be   
   but all the complaining is coming out now..   
      
   MP>IMHO, one way the small groups do this is that they get enough people swayed   
     >from the larger group, by playing on their feelings/emotions at the expense   
     >of logic and facts.   
      
   That is part of it, but if you can get the Gov't involved they can   
   make laws and such that are totally unfair to most people to please   
   smaller groups. Plus I think in a lot of cases ordinary people who   
   want to be fair to everyone are often misled into agreeing with   
   some things that are wildly unfair to the majority, which they are   
   part of.   
      
   A comment I made (in jest) a while back to illustrate the point   
   was, I wonder what would happen if people also wanted to have   
   a Straight Pride Parade every year too?  No doubt that would be   
   considered totally illegal, an attack on non-straight people..   
      
   The person I was talking to also pointed out that in a lot of   
   the Pride Parades, there is a good amount of full frontal nudity   
   going on, which you'd be arrested for if you were anyone else.   
      
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