Reply #288: That's not an answer. [View All]

Like the post I was responding to, you're making a claim that simply cannot be demonstrated to be true.



"The reality is that golfers are more likely to be child molesters than croquet players. It's as plain as the nose on your face."


That's how much sense the claim that bar fighters are "more normal" and "less prone to recidivism" than gay bashers.

I have no stats regarding these things, neither does the poster, and yet he makes the claim, base on his "feeling".

For all I know, most gay-bashers do it once and never again, and most bar-fighters do it on a bi-weekly basis.

In fact the claims are somewhat contradictory. If bar fighting is "more normal" because it's more common, it stands to reason that the same people are tending to repeat the behavior more often.

But it's not about logic, it's about how these things make us FEEL. A man with his face smashed in an unprovoked bar fight makes us cluck our tongues and think "he probably was asking for it", whereas a gay man with the same injuries, who got called a name during his beating stirs up our sense of injustice, and rightly so, but the crimes are still basically identical. We even make the automatic assumption that the bar guy provoked the fight, but that the gay guy did nothing at all, but we really don't know that either.