It was just a comparison
TJ and Manning, you both see my point except for the aspect that in I was using examples that just happen to not be hypothetical, but current sacred cows that I don't particularly subscribe to as being sacred at all.
Granted that this is text form and you can't exactly tell the degree of semi-facetiousness (sp?) behind it, you sort of took that the wrong way. But it even furthers my point: you dare not even step within a 50 foot circle of insulting (jokingly, rhetorically, for the sake of arguement as in this case, or otherwise) certain designated things or ideas because at the time they are protected according to current fashion of thought, and automatically have some kind of alarms going off in your head when someone else does. Of particular interest in such point is that those rushing to the defense of groups mentioned are not members of said groups (I'm guessing on that), but have unwittingly become their puppets or trained attack dogs because the commonly accepted thought wavelength of the masses tells them they should. How sad. The same people that display "Question Authority" and various "anarchy" bumper stickers and seemingly strive daily to live according to some form of nonconformism themselves don't even question the current status quo and in turn conform to the supposed nonconformity.
In short, to attack my ideas thinking by doing such to promote tolerance of other ideas is itself no less intolerance of ideas. The concept of "tolerance" and "open mindedness" is as stupid (in the literal sense) as a dog chasing its tail: an idea or behavior exists and is to be left alone according to the principle of tolerance and freedom, but mandating that they be left alone is itself forbidding a thought process or course of action and that restriction is itself an infringement upon the original idea of freedom of thought and action. To quote Dr. No, (from the James Bond movie of the same name) "East, West [are] just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other."
But more to the point, I wasn't concluding that something or someone should be hated instead of paintball, but the inherent hypocrisy illustrated in that it is apparently indefensible to bash other certain groups and activities but according to the current public mindset perfectly OK to bash paintballers and paintballing. We should point out that hypocrisy and see that it is addressed and remedied.
Now, is that easy enough to finally understand?
