But why do they come up with stuff that kills people like this? ~Strawberry

I thought that the “drink bleach” thing was a joke. ~Strawberry

I’m guessing all we can do about it right now is beg the assholes to stop being assholes, wait several years and hope enough other people don’t like this enough to maybe vote out the politicians doing it and maybe overcome all of the gerrymandering, or just watch in horror? ~Strawberry

But like… Why do they believe that? Why do they want this as their purpose in life? Why do they believe the “one of the good ones” crap? Why do they prioritize maintaining their worldview over human lives??? ~Cherri

Why do they want this? What’s the appeal of it? And before someone says something about control or cruelty or something, why do they want that? ~Strawberry

Why do they want this though? Why do they want to roll back women’s rights and freedoms? What’s the appeal of that? Just… Why??? ~Strawberry

What is the appeal of it exactly? And I don’t mean the surface level “something something control, cruelty” answer, what’s the appeal of that? It’s confusing… ~Strawberry

I guess that makes sense? Maybe? I don’t quite get how someone could purposely hit children with anything and think it’s okay. I don’t get the thought process there. It’s certainly not “well my parents did it so it must be fine”. It seems so obvious and yet… I don’t know. I don’t get how it could take a lot of effort to not hit children. It’s an active choice, not a passive one, and it doesn’t seem like a difficult conclusion to come to. I’m confused more than anything. ~Strawberry

I would think not hitting children would be a pretty good offer, among many other things. ~Strawberry

the children who will be subjected to this will not be the ones with parents who are able to deal with conflict in healthy ways

I’m not sure framing this in terms of ability is particularly accurate. Nothing is forcing those parents to abuse their children. Absolutely nothing. They are choosing that. They are perfectly able to choose not to and to try to find a way that actually works and isn’t incredibly cruel. ~Strawberry

Kinder kirche küche.

I feel like that just leads to more questions about why they want that and prioritize that over all else… ~Strawberry

But that still leaves a major question: What’s the point of the cruelty? ~Strawberry

How exactly do you propose we get people who want to force all trans people to detransition or face persecution to stop wanting that?

The whole “it must be because you disagree with them!” narrative only makes sense if you ignore any and all context surrounding what’s being disagreed upon. Of course, those people are a vocal minority within the population, but a vocal minority who cause a disporportionate number of problems. ~Strawberry

If I may ask, why do you think evangelicals maintain their position on homosexuality? Any idea where it came from? ~Strawberry

Why though? And why do so many people, including many who aren’t in power, seem to have similarly awful responses to crises? ~Strawberry

I guess so. But mainly why that’s only being spelled out in law now rather than earlier. ~Strawberry

A lack of an immediately presented opposing viewpoint doesn’t automatically force someone to become a genocidal fascist. They could look for something else. They could come up with something else. They could tell the fascist to fuck off while they wait. Not knowing what to do doesn’t magically turn someone into a fascist just because a fascist scumbag happened to grace their Facebook timeline first. ~Strawberry

Of course, but we also need to convince people to stop defaulting to horrible bullshit that has nothing to do with solving the root causes of the ongoing crises in response to said crises just because some fascist scumbag happened to end up on their TV or Faceboom timeline first. And also do something about the fascist scumbags. ~Strawberry

Why do people always seem to pick the most horrible responses to crises?.. ;-; ~Strawberry

My question is why is this only being spelled out now? Hell, where and why did the contrary idea come from in the first place??? ~Strawberry