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It wasn't okay for Pol Pot to kill all the rich people, but what else can you do?
Obviously there was enough support for killing rich people then, but lucky for them that thirty years later its okay to be rich again, so it isnt permanent. I strongly believe that rich people deserve to live too, but the opposition back then was too strong to do anything about it then.
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It wasn't okay for america to take away all the black folks' rights and put up 'separate but equal' laws, but what else can you do?
From votes back then there just wasnt enough support for black people to have rights, but at least 20-30 years later they had rights so it wasnt permanent. I strongly believe in racial equality but the opposition was too strong to do anything about it then.
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Do you really want your argument to sound like that, pierce?
Your argument is just 'wait it out'.
Justice, freedom, equality, civil rights... these things do not happen from just 'waiting it out'. Every person who fails to campaign for gay rights or
any other kind of civil right is complicit in the deprivation of that right. If you
actually strongly believed that gay marriage should be legal, you would go out and tell the homophobic bigots that they are wrong, and why. You would fight for equality and civil rights. You would do the right thing.
Right now, your strategy is doing nothing, and doing nothing is no better than doing the right thing.