Francis Foster
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I'm trying to probe your worldview, that's all.
Well, that's why we have elections so that that is adjudicated and then legislated on, right?
Because ultimately there's philosophy and then there's politics, right?
So you might philosophically believe that homosexuality is wrong, but at the level of society, we can have a vote and it may turn out that the majority of the country doesn't agree with you.
And at one point it was, right?
And those people believed in God way more than we do.
Right.
Why is it that you think he shouldn't suck dicks?
But that's fair enough.
Right.
But then the question is, are you seeking to convert your philosophical view into political reality?
Why shouldn't I?
I suppose that's a fair question, actually.
Yeah.
Well, I guess it's a question of what happens when the majority of the public vote for somebody who doesn't... Now we're just outsourcing our morality again to the populists?
But see, there's laws that I don't agree with.
Right.
And there's laws that don't exist that I think should exist.
but I accept the majority of the country in which I live doesn't agree with me.
And that is a kind of compromise we all have to make at some level, right?