[Brandon]

Originally Posted by Coexist.

With that, I could think of circumstances where I believe that everybody has problems looking at the "other side" in an unbiased way. For myself, I have a hard time looking at those against gay marriage in an unbiased way because I think it's utterly ridiculous to reject somebody's rights to anything. You probably have your own issues (maybe drugs, since I've seen you argue in a few of those) where your opinion is very strong and you have a hard time accepting information on another point-of-view. For some people, religion is like that. They cannot accept that somebody believes/does not believe the same way as they do.

I don't mean to sound like I do things perfectly all the time because I do make mistakes. It's harder to understand someone in reality when they talk about things you are highly against because it's the heat of the moment and you don't really have time to think of a response. But when it comes to the internet, I do my best to try and understand because I'm not obligated to send a response at any point as long as I just send a response. So I try to take my time. If someone provides evidence, I'll look at it to see if it's credible and I'll look at the content of it (in that order). I do understand the other perspective, but even if you understand the perspective doesn't mean you agree with it. Throughout my years at TH, I have changed my mind on things. Originally I was against the legalization of marijuana. However, there are some things that I'm going to agree with and some things that I'm not going to agree with, but I'll always make an attempt to understand it because you got all the time to respond to someone...why not be patient and provide a well thought out response, you know?

I do see your point, though. My beef is with poly-amorous relationships because that's something that I really don't understand and it does frustrate me. But the important thing is that while I don't agree with it or understand it doesn't mean that I can ridicule them. I will get heated and question a lot of things about it, but I won't escalate into calling them names, consider them less intelligent, or anything along those lines.