Silhouette
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1. I'm pretty sure you don't have a realistic view of the situation. If this conflict was just over the last couple of years, your idea might have some merit. The "gray hairs" as you call them would remember how things were before any conflict,and would be able to tell how to get back to that. This has been building for a long time, and the "gray hairs" are the ones who built it to this point. In fact,they are the ones who are obstructing any change. Some young people are listening to them. They are being urged on to ever more violent opposition to any change.
2. Gay rights is a great example of how the older ones are causing the problems. We have reached a point where it is no longer acceptable to deny rights based on someone's sexual orientation. Allowing universal rights for our citizens is the right and moral thing to do. Young people are good with it. It's the " gray hairs" that are afraid to change and they fight for immoral things because they are afraid to admit that we can be better, and just because that's the way it has always been doesn't mean it is right.
1. Men change as they age. At least wise ones do.
2. Behaviors are not granted as "rights". If that was the case, it would be a "right" to vomit into an urn at a restaurant if you did bulimia; instead of being forced to the bathroom after every meal. Who are we to shove them in the closet?
You see, behaviors come in every type and variety. If the majority cannot regulate them, what again are the penal and civil codes for? Don't they just impinge upon people's "rights to practice their behavioral orientations?". And before you say "gay hurts nobody, (gay marriage)" remember that gay marriage permanently disenfranchises children drawn into it from either a mother or father for life. That harms them.