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Hmm, not sure if that logic flies. There are many people who hold the view that race (whatever that may be) is innate while homosexuality is not. They would argue that the latter can be “cured” while the former cannot. From that perspective the distinction makes sense. (I do not subscribe to that view at all, btw.)



Yes, these people are wrong. We must be able to make judgements of fact to make good decisions about these things.


As soon as you say wrong, you start sounding like the people running these churches.

I am ok with people being wrong, that's why we have freedoms. It's society's job to pressure churches and other organizations to turn away from these dangerous beliefs. Not the governments.

That's part of why I fight for freedoms like this. Wrong is subjective, the objective truth of wrong comes from society. If you allow governments to determine what is "wrong" we would have never gotten to the point that we are having these conversations.

Some of our beliefs will be wrong to a future generation, by allowing them the freedom to change them through societal pressure we allow society to grow without creating the friction of civil unrest to grow from that vector.


Who's talking about the government? This is about Google. I'm talking about being factually wrong, not morally wrong.


>Who's talking about the government? This is about Google.

True.

> I'm talking about being factually wrong, not morally wrong.

True.

I was taking things out of context.

I don't love how much power these companies have with their app stores. I'll be interested to see how regulation of these falls out and whether or not that regulation makes them more open or closed. (this was my thinking when I mentioned the government above).




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