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And I think that people who can say things like this really just don't feel gay rights are as important as other people's rights. Like they're optional. Like we did them a favor le…

It's been annoying for months, at least. I've noticed it more and more - at least once every couple of days, I'll experience the phenomenon which I'm sure most here are by now fami…

Be warned. You're talking to well-known security buffoon and Monsanto flack, Tim Ptacek.

Today, I learned just how trivial people believe gay rights are. I'm actually surprised by it. That's much sadder to me.

It has proven to be a much more popular opinion, at least on Hacker News, than I ever would have thought possible in 2014.

Ok. Sorry. We'll all use the exact right level of rhetoric from now on.

The Hacker News community wants to discuss this story much more than the Hacker News mods want to allow it to be discussed. They think they've reasonably allowed the community to d…

I don't think you and so many others would say the same thing if the issue was inter-racial marriage, today. Is it really so hard for people to get a little bit ahead of the progre…

Really? Is there a rash of this sort of thing going on that I don't know about? Or is it pretty much just Brendan Eich right now, reaping the consequences of expressing bigotry pub…

I'm sure I wrote what I did on purpose. Thanks for the invite, though!

Oh for fucks sake. Whether or not every Christian is pro-life doesn't change what I said, but thanks for the tangent. Every Internet argument can use more pedantic tangents!

Do you even know that you are playing meaningless word games, of the form, "This statement is a lie" or "atheism is a religion"? You really think that "In order to be tolerant, you…

"Sure, you could say it's a human rights issue." Are you sure you don't want to give this possibility a little more weight? Maybe a lot more weight? I mean, what if it is a human r…

I like to think of this issue in the most specific terms possible, rather than the most sweeping and abstract. If, for just a moment, you can set aside the bluster, it's just one g…

On a scale of 1 to 5, how strong of an argument do you believe you're making right here? That an individual assuming a position of high leadership being pressured to leave that lea…

Aw. And to think, you could have just thanked him!

"for his political views" In this case, you cannot speak generally like this. In this case, it really matters exactly what those political views are, not just that they are "politi…

Half of the people in this thread are deeply confused about the relationship between civil rights and popular opinion. The latter is a perception of the former, not the cause or de…

I have no idea what you're saying, so I'll just add to my point. Did authority originate as 'the people' purposefully vesting some of their power into one or more leaders, in order…

The entire concept of authority is inherently suspicious. It's so easy to confuse it for people with advantages using their advantages to enjoy their advantages.

Eh. I think a lot of this is in your head and can be got over. It sounds nothing at all like my experience.

It absolutely does have the same status for those who are on the right side of the argument (the one that will certainly be vindicated by history). The people who are in the right …

I'm liberal, and I believe society should be as permissive as it can stand to be with regard to behavior, choices, and the kinds of lifestyles we can create. But I'm not an idiot. …

We're entering a time (finally, I hope) where people don't care why a person is a bigot, or whether they're only a bigot in "private", whatever that means. I can see how this could…