Quote Originally Posted by Highland Logan View Post
Well the conversation evolved. Look, if my words came off as harsh I'm sorry. However we live in a "SOCIETY", that means we also have to take the feelings of others into account before we start stumbling through life like a bull in a china shop, shouting "ME! My WAY!". Follow the rules of a polite and law-abiding society and you can never go wrong.

Frank
We do in fact live in a a society with laws that are most usually set up for the common good. **nodding** But I have to say that Ghandi didn't follow the rules of a polite and law-abiding society, and neither did Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Oscar Romero and neither did that guy in the middle east about 2,000 years ago who wore unbifurcated garments and ended his earthly existence on two large beams of wood, bolted or lashed together at right angles.

Now Ghandi and Martin Luther King and Oscar Romero and that guy in the middle east weren't fighting about underwear, eh? They had much more important things to say, and more important things to fight for, than underwear. I just wanted to try to graciously point out that sometimes it's best to NOT follow the rules of the polite and law-abiding society, when the greater right and the truer justice points beyond the "norm".

But again, those men had greater things on their mind than underwear. I have a problem equating someones right to not wear underwear with Ghandi facing British soldiers in a peaceful confrontation, or Archbishop Romero preaching against the tyranny in El Salvador that cost him his life. They're not the same thing. Underwear is UNDERWEAR, not basic human rights.

It wasn't just your post, there were several others. I'm just saddened that too many topics of discussion these days turn into anger and unhappy disagreement.