Quote from: myrkul on November 13, 2012, 12:32:43 AM

Quote from: amencon on November 13, 2012, 12:08:29 AM

People now think about people that have sex with dead bodies similarly to the way people used to feel about gays. We haven't become a nation of tolerance, we've just moved the goal posts and declared victory.

Changing the public perception of necrophilia will require more drastic change than the acceptance of gays, or even furries. You'd need to get everyone to see a corpse as an object rather than their dear Aunt Sally. You'd be going against not just centuries, but all of human history. We've been burying the dead to keep just this sort of thing from happening - desecration of the corpse - since we've been "us."

I don't disagree. This doesn't refute the point I was making at all though.

It took drastic change for the acceptance of gays, before the change was made it would be inaccurate for someone to claim tolerance and hate gays, regardless of how much change was needed for the general populace to become accepting. People that owned slaves probably didn't think they were prejudiced, this had no bearing on what the truth was though.

The type of thinking that led to arguments made by you and repentance is exactly why it took centuries (Millennia? more?) for acceptance of gays. If we don't give a shit about truly being tolerant then that's fine (I happen to have a sexual preference that is very common and therefore don't personally benefit from tolerance of more exotic sexual orientations, if anything it hurts me in the sense that Will & Grace aired on TV at one point and I inadvertently watched occasional commercials of it etc.), let's just not pretend that people who accept gays are so much more enlightened since they are really just a different shade of gray from the ignorant bigots of say the KKK.

To be fair though from a practical standpoint you can say they (those accepting of gays) are tolerant of the vast majority by percent of total population if not a by a majority of sexual orientations. Although that is basically saying it's OK to be intolerant of a people as long as the population of those people is small.

If you want to be selectively tolerant don't worry you are part of the majority. Just be honest with yourself about your beliefs and realize you don't have a reasonable logical standing to support them.

It's actually not my intention to be offensive and I don't really hate people that are selectively tolerant since that is vast majority of the people in the world we live in. Mostly I find this argument intellectually interesting, I've had it many times with friends.