Because you don't believe in something, you'd deny someone who believed differently the right to express their beliefs in a public manner? Clearly you didn't act on the instinct to do so (assuming "I just wanted to grab him ..." means you didn't do so, only wanted to), but the instinct to require consensus or silence with your own beliefs is the same instinct that drives the intolerantly uuber-religious to action that seeks to persecute, silence and/or ridicule you and yours for believing differently than they do.
All well and good to think you should work for a paycheck rather than waiting for the lottery yourself. Might bear some self examination when you start feeling the urge to silence anyone who'd dare to disagree on that point anywhere other than behind their own closed doors.
Or, you know, not ... especially if this is just an expression of your frustrations made in your corner of a public venue because you feel like expressing those frustrations in a public venue. But still bears noting: tolerance works both ways. That whole golden rule thing can be a real bitch in that regard.
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Date: 2011-12-09 09:34 pm (UTC)All well and good to think you should work for a paycheck rather than waiting for the lottery yourself. Might bear some self examination when you start feeling the urge to silence anyone who'd dare to disagree on that point anywhere other than behind their own closed doors.
Or, you know, not ... especially if this is just an expression of your frustrations made in your corner of a public venue because you feel like expressing those frustrations in a public venue. But still bears noting: tolerance works both ways. That whole golden rule thing can be a real bitch in that regard.