Well, I think it goes without saying that you don't get to stab folks at random. Israel has no kinds of law that can restrict these sorts of parades do they?

This was on the main ABC news here in Australia, along with a suspected arson attack by settlers that killed a Palestinian child. Amazingly, the ABC didn't prominently report the beheading of settler children by a Palestinians a few years ago.  The ABC certainly does it best to keep up the high standards set by the BBC.

The whole political game is rhetorical and sub-rational for conservatives also. Besides we're fundamentally talking about esteem and honor when we're speaking of which position is and is not "discredited" in the relevant sense, which are themselves sub rational and only partially concerned with truth. So I don't understand this carping about the fact that it's obviously a illogical to consider a position wrong on the basis of the actions of a few stupid people who hold the position. Most Marxists after a certain period would not endorse the actions of the Soviet Union, but Marxism was tainted with the actions of the Soviet Union even unto this day. That's how things go.

Sure, you can certainly give a good argument. And people who would participate in a gay pride parades probably have a good argument, or at least what they think is a good argument, for their ideas. And some of them, the more thoughtful ones, think that they have a good argument against conservative positions. That's the point. People will engage in silly rhetorical games, even when they could argue, because they think it's more effective. And sometimes, it indeed is more effective. The argument presented is usually presented in a rhetorical manner against Marxism not in a manner that concerned to actually show the truth of the position.

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