Twitter Updates for 26-11-2013

• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/NbiMpDom4K Intro to sputtering (process to create clear, conductive coatings) 02:27:17, 2013-11-26
• RT @BoingBoing: AJ Jacobs writes about trying all the things you're not supposed to do with Google Glass http://t.co/Yb4jxOLUUv 02:38:16, 2013-11-26
• RT @YourAnonNews: Update in #Steubenville rape case: School superintendent faces felony counts, 3 others charged: http://t.co/ZpqDRKLCDa 02:46:15, 2013-11-26
• RT @YourAnonNews: What is Chelsea Manning grateful for this year? Read: http://t.co/uIgU1N5Rgr via @TIME 02:47:30, 2013-11-26
• @asifandwhen Excitement, danger, freedom from long-term responsibilities? in reply to asifandwhen 02:48:30, 2013-11-26
• RT @NightValeRadio: If you love something set it free. If it returns, burrows into your ribs, devours your heart & becomes your new heart, … 02:48:41, 2013-11-26
• @Ukimori I've asked myself the same thing. "Hope" usually comes up. in reply to Ukimori 02:49:26, 2013-11-26
• RT @blacktriangle1: #Atos-#DWP Bristol woman 'killed herself after benefits were stopped' By The Bristol Post | Posted: November 25,… h… 02:54:27, 2013-11-26
• RT @YourAnonNews: 16-Year-Old Jailed at Rikers for 3 Years Without Trial http://t.co/KwzTUNeCNC #poltwt 02:56:10, 2013-11-26
• RT @benprunty: Don't know how I missed this before. Yahtzee Croshaw writes a poem about FTL: http://t.co/GHp8cJDad6 03:00:08, 2013-11-26
• RT @DARPA: “Vacuum tubes bring back visions of antique electronics, but these are not your grandparents' TV sets” http://t.co/ZROPiwmbxP 03:03:04, 2013-11-26
• RT @haeid: ハレンチ！ http://t.co/32KjgZW7CJ 03:05:41, 2013-11-26
• RT @mart_brooks: I propose a mandatory label for "alternative" medicines: "WARNING: Does not contain science." 03:10:48, 2013-11-26
• RT @GuardianUS: "Canada spends roughly 60% of what the US does on healthcare, and we manage to cover everyone." http://t.co/A2ywolBlLK via … 03:10:57, 2013-11-26
• RT @antibible_t: This man has done more for humanity than most so-called "men of God"(pastors) http://t.co/USmGmnFwhN 03:13:32, 2013-11-26
• RT @BillGates: I guest-edited this month’s @WIRED. It’s all about innovation for the poorest 2 billion: http://t.co/932rJQOp5i http://t.co/… 03:16:45, 2013-11-26
• @Ukimori *hugs* :( in reply to Ukimori 03:18:34, 2013-11-26
• I was idling on Lucky7, but got tired of the sound of spider drowning. Upside; the string grinder works! 03:24:14, 2013-11-26
• CAPTCHA systems that don't work and stop you legitimately contacting people you need to because email addys aren't displayed anywhere. #FFS 04:41:32, 2013-11-26
• RT @Quinnanthrowman: This is now hanging on my door, and senior faculty keep asking for the jpeg! http://t.co/RoSuPED8Lq 04:42:37, 2013-11-26
• RT @simonjenks: RT @edcrooks How the Dutch got their cycle paths: A mass die-in outside Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in the 70s. http://t.co/lE0… 09:34:31, 2013-11-26
• RT @BoingBoing: RIP, Richard "Datamancer" Nagy http://t.co/GcJknEbGF6 09:45:26, 2013-11-26
• RT @BBCBreaking: Estimated 31,100 excess winter deaths occurred last year in England & Wales, a 29% increase from previous year http://t.co… 10:26:39, 2013-11-26
• RT @moderntory: *Wonders if all the negative RBS stories are leaking now so we don't piss & moan when it's sold off on the cheap* 10:28:03, 2013-11-26
• "Burglary is about getting something that you want that’s guarded by architecture. I realized over the…" http://t.co/6DUnRkEMDV 13:44:00, 2013-11-26
• RT @boucherhayes: Beyond parody. Saudi Arabia's "World Conference on Women." Can you find a woman? Spoiler: You won't http://t.co/2ImPlLXO13 15:50:59, 2013-11-26
• I liked a @YouTube video from @generikb http://t.co/XXzzUm5aZO VLOG: A Hermit In Bulgaria: Episode 3! – "Breakfast Time In 15:56:32, 2013-11-26
• Primate Teaches Anthropologist to Use Tools – theolduvaigorge: anthrocity: annsoltera: I’m a sucker for an… http://t.co/iQSqnK3C16 22:09:29, 2013-11-26

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.

The gay marriage “slippery slope” merchant

I think what bothers me most about people who use the “slippery slope” argument against gay marriage is they always say it’ll lead to people marrying dogs or cars.

Thing is, I find the underlying mindset disturbing more than the fact they’re making the argument. Cars aren’t alive. Dogs are incapable of providing informed consent. Neither are legally resposible for themselves, recognised as sovereign entities. The underlying mindset seems to be that marriage is something that you do to others, wether consentual or not. It seems to cry “I beleive marriage is an act of violence” first, arguably worse than the explicit text that they only beleive it should be commited against the opposite sex.

Or given the context, perhaps that should be the opposing sex.

It screams, “When I marry someone, they are my property”. My object. My slave. My Husband. My wife. My dog. My Car. Mine.

Maybe it’s actually the frequent use of the word “partner” they object to.

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.