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Nobody is stopping their way of life. Why do they need special rights and privileges others don't have?

Why do you have rights and privleges that other people don't use?

The alternative is civil uprising and violence, the same as many other demographs and groups of people throughout history have caused because their government and society decided to ignore their demands.

Bullshit. I have the exact same rights as other citizens, my choosing to exercise them or not is irrelevant. Here people are talking about inventing special rights for some groups. If they hate human rights so much they should go to North Korea or Iran or Saudi. Their demands are fine, they can make whatever society they want, nobody is stopping them. What is not permissible is them having special rights others don't that are forcing others to do business with them and violating others free speech and free association. If they can't do that, they are not compatible with democracy and should go to an autocracy of their choice that enforces their beliefs.

And you think those rights just popped out of the ground and were freely given to everybody and always existed? Your rights don't even match the rights of your neighboring countries, and don't match the rights people had in the past in the same physical place you live in now.

What does that have to do with anything? The person above was demanding special rights for some groups. Thats absolute nonsense. All the rights we have apply to everyone in the country. What does that have to do with other laws and rights in other countries? Nobody within a country should have special rights that are not applicable to other citizens of the same country.

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