You're loosing me here Pal. You have taken a simple matter of equality and turned in into massive ball a gobity gook. It does not matter what the benefits of legal marriage are or where they come from. The simple fact is that -like it or not- government sanctions marriage and provides a range of benefits, and if hetro couples can enjoy those benefits, so must gay couples be able to.
You have the right to assume responsibility for yourself. And the moral duty to exercise it. Though, that moral duty requires moral awareness. I think therein lies your shortcoming.
Do or do not. I don't really care. It doesn't affect my day in any way. I've never thought much of the religion of Statism, anyway.
And that's the real difference I am seeing, and why I believe we have no choice but to form two different countries.
Two quotes from Milton Friedman that I have in my signature:
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
"One of the greatest mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."
Some on here do not believe that the free market will fix the problems identified. Ultimately,
they do not believe in freedom.
This is the fundamental difference between libertarians and statists/progressives/communists. I don't think we can ever reach common ground. We are so far apart that I doubt we can live in the same country.
The Statists place full faith in government, pretending that the assholes who aspire to hold those offices are not ambitions and power hungry. But, every example throughout history proves that those who seek and obtain power will never stop taking power until they have it all and everyone else is at their disposal.
Government is force. That all it is. Force is the antithesis of liberty.
So, faith in government means that all problems must be solved by government. Solving those problems via government is solving problems via
FORCE.
"This is the right way to treat people, so we're passing a law."
A translation: We are going to FORCE people to treat others the right way.
They demand FORCE but lack to foresight to see how such a demand will end in their demise. Before they know what happened, they end up having all their property confiscated and find themselves laboring to mine salt in Siberia.
Statists will never stop trying to FORCE others to behave the way the statists think they should.
How can we share a country when some demand FORCE at every turn?
We just.....need a divorce. That's it. I am nearly resigned to it.