"Christ, I wish I cared"

But you do care and that is all for the good on public forums, OLO is exceptional in allowing freedom of speech.

I am the one who should be apologising, for my habitual quick draft and hit send.

Today as every day it has been amusing observing the PC mob explain away a revealing drop of the tweeds by 'someone who ought to know (his PC) better'.

Thus far in what is becoming known as 'C*bleep*gate', guru 'First Australia' Noel's depiction of senior federal parliamentarians as 'C*bleep*s' or 'F*bleep*ing C*bleeps*' is being explained away by, 'Anyhow, some celebrity chef does it'.

Waiting for some OLO posters to do better. They will excel too, even though there is an understandable delay for leads from 'their' ABC and others (Waleed? LOL).

Dear Joe,

«anybody can be what they like at any moment.»

No, no one can be any other than themselves!

Certainly, one can change their mind and the jury is still out regarding to what extent one can also change their physical body and its DNA in particular, yet no matter how often or how extensively one changes their mind and body, no one can change themselves.

So long as one identifies with their mind or body, they also identify with the sexual orientation of that particular mind/body, so if it happens to be fluid then they consider themselves to be fluid as well - but that's a mistake: your body and mind are not you.

«Christ, I wish I cared.»

I also do not care about the specific sexual orientation of one's body/mind. What I care about is the needless suffering that is caused by the ignorance of identifying oneself with one's sexuality and turning it into a big-deal.

In the context of this discussion, Ben and Jerry encourage the public to turn sexuality into a big issue rather than allow it to rest in its proper proportions - just a small hiccup on our spiritual journey.

Dear Joel - Yes, the ABC is guilty of the same.

I'm greatly amused that anybody takes this idiocy seriously.

AJ, we might have to agree to differ :)

Oh well, off to get a life.

Joe

Joe,

You are yet to demonstrate that any of it is idiocy. The science seems to disagree with you. What is your evidence that it is mere idiocy? I thought you cared about evidence, or is that only when it suits your cause?

By the way, did you notice that I assumed earlier that you had confused gender with biological sex? I could have accused you of a straw man, but gave you the benefit of the doubt. Yet here you have been running around accusing me of straw men on various threads; straw men that were never there to begin with.

Like I once said (http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=7732#237838), it’s good that you’re trying to identify and avoid logical fallacies - and, yes, it would be rather amusing to catch me out committing a fallacy given how quick I am to point it out in others - but I also warned that you should be careful to not see them where they don’t exist.

It makes you come across as a bit of douche if you do.

Heuristics
It doesn't matter how silly, it is how often the subject appears that matters in persuading/manipulating public opinion.

Also, it doesn't matter if a report is wrong, but is followed by a correction. Both contribute to similar recall, ie., that there 'was a problem/wrong being done'.

- Psychologists know that and so does the ABC. Or else the entire ABC Board and management ought to be sacked.

The ABC does not have to respond to market forces either. It gets its $1.3billion pa anyhow. It is in a uniquely privileged position and one of trust that must not be abused.

Of course the ABC would report this cr@p. The ABC will always preference, even make, stories that relate to its hidden secondary agenda of being a change agent for its leftist 'Progressivism', of which gay marriage is a staging point towards destroying the feminist-hated 'traditional' marriage and family

The ABC has so many good people with heaps of skills who can make such good programs. What about increasing the public's access to digital communication and learning?

Why put millions into the circuses like Q&A and ringmasters, like the smug Tony Jones?

I am not criticising the quest of some for marriage (that is being aimed by the self-titled 'Progressives' for the refuse tip anyhow).

I am not sure that where gays are concerned they were wise to allow the feminists, especially the feminist radicals of the Gillard government (and the Gay Pride activists to a lesser extent), to lead them by the nose, They were lazy and are now paying for that lapse I believe.

A argument could be put to choose a different label and regulation to the highly contested and conflict-ridden heterosexual model. Others can play with that.

What I do believe though is that the ABC is often failing to provide for the digital needs, ESSENTIALS, of young and old alike, and for that matter all Australians. A convincing argument could be put for wiping out the entire ABC to morrow and giving everyone internet access even if slow, a tablet (or private access) and some regular training.