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From: red sox 777 | #033
Or you could come up with a single good argument against it and prove him wrong.

I wasn't the one who made the topic. I don't have strong feelings towards the issue in either direction.

Making a statement of the form there is no x is typically a strong statement and hard to prove. In this case you would have to show that every single argument against gay marriage is bad. Not an easy thing to do. So if you just assert it as a fact- well basically you're just being a fundamentalist. You believe there are certain things that are fundamentals, meaning that everyone should agree on them, and if you don't you're immoral/stupid/wrong.

You're right that it could probably be refuted, but why? If you make a very strong, counterintuitive, statement, you should probably back it up first. Also, I get the feeling that if someone did make a valid argument for banning gay marriage here, the TC would likely argue that that argument is bad. Well, anybody can always claim that, even when what they really mean is not that the argument is bad but that they disagree. Perhaps they only disagree on the facts, even, and not with the reasoning at all.

It's an insulting thing to say, because you are not leaving any room for anyone else to respectfully disagree with you. No, if there is not a single good argument for the other side, then if they disagree with you, they must be immoral/stupid/etc.