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I had along-overdue visit with the eye doctor yesterday, though it turns out my
glasses prescription hasn't changed (I'm nearsighted), so the delay was of no
consequence. I forgot, however, to try to satisfy my curiosity when he asked me
if I had any questions, because I wanted to ask him his thoughts on that LASER
eye surgery (I'm guessing he gets that a lot). I will follow-up with him on this
directly soon enough, but I decided to lay some groundwork on the web...
searching for "LASER eye surgery problems" (naturally the aspect of this I am
most curious about) turned up enough of an abundance of results to turn anyone
off to the prospect. A more refined search for "Custom LASIK problems" was much
less pessimistic, though, with the majority of hits from eye doctor sites
discussing potential complications. Along the way I learned that the Custom
LASIK is also capable of coping with astigmatisms too (though mine is considered
quite mild to start with), so it's possible I'm a candidate for this. At this
point I admit to still being a bit doubtful about all this... I'm not much of a
gambler, and I'm reluctant to risk my vision in order to take the chance on
improving it, but I am still tugged by curiosity, so if anyone has any links or
information about the pros and cons of this procedure, I'd be very interested.
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Apr 11, 2004, 02:11 |
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How are you still going with this? Give it up.
A relevant war analogy might read: Yes, war has existed since well before human history, but that doesn't mean we can't redefine war to include peace.
It isn't that homosexual marriage is WRONG, Steve, it's that it's an oxymoron. Marriage is a union between a woman and a man, always has been. I'm sorry, what? Let me recap this for you.
YOU: Marriage should be exclusively between a man and a woman because that's how it's always been. ME: "Because that's how it's always been" is not a valid argument. One can't say war should be because there has always been war, or that slavery should be because there has always been slavery.
Where are you coming up with this "redefining" stuff? It's flawed in multiple ways, all of which have been laid out. It's tiresome to explain things over and over. First, it can't be legally redefined if it's not already legally defined. It's only defined by precedent and religion, both of which are invalid arguments.
"Always has been" doesn't work. Stop using it.
Second, your comparisons are all completely off-target. That you can't grasp that two men getting married is not the diametric opposite of a man and a woman getting married is puzzling. This can't be argued, it just isn't the case. Redefining war to include peace is more akin to redefining marriage to include divorce. Redefining marriage to include samesex marriage has absolutely nothing to do with any of the analogies you're making.
Marriage has its roots in the act of bearing and raising children. The origins of marriage are just as irrelevant in modern society as any number of things in the bible. Bearing and raising children is no longer important in the sense that it was in ancient times, when populations were small and larger numbers gave the advantages of larger armies and a larger workforce.
Your embarrasingly feeble intellect is the joke. Honestly, how can you say that? You don't have a leg to stand on here. You're making yourself sound like an ass more and more with each post.
~Steve
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