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Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie
interval1066 writes "A story in Wired describes Orson Scott Card's quest for tolerance in response to a boycott for Gavin Hood's film adaption of Ender's Game, saying that 'The gay marriage issue is moot' in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. Card is a long time anti-gay and defense of marriage activist. 'His concern, ostensibly, is that someone might be petty enough not to see his movie simply because he spent years lobbying for laws that treated certain people as less than human. The fallacy he employs here — that calling out hate-speech is intolerance on par with curtailing the human rights of others — is a favorite fallback of cowards and bullies, and a way of evading responsibility for the impact of their words and actions.' I guess he didn't see this film and the box-office importance of wide appeal coming, did he?"
By a quirk of history, this particular culture won and imposed it customs on everyone else.
Polygamy isn't "natural" to humans. We are naturally almost monogomous. If you're a younger person this might not make a lot of sense, but you will discover it is the truth when your "light goes on".
Humans aren't strictly monogamous as male anatomy testifies; however, that is not the same as saying we are naturally polygamous. Sexual jealously can tear societies apart, which is why polygamous situations involve a *rich* man and a couple of women of different ages -- the youngest being the "love" interest.
No-one else really likes this arrangement -- which is also a biological imperative -- and it is no accident that monogamy is dominant.
Humans are born to suffer with all the competing desires inside of them. The sooner your light goes on, the happier you'll be.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
Free broken child that will make a good soldier that will not question orders.
It is hard to find soldiers that will gladly kill americans and children. Broken family kids are easy to mold into what the leaders need.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.