I realized after years of debating with my flamingly liberal friends that they often argued that something was legal so I was supposed to shut up. It's another trump card they play on someone else's answers, an "Automatic I-WIN Card".
That's how they'll argue when something they like has been made legal since the Sixties. But when they're arguing to get some old established law changed so they can have the law look they way THEY say it should look, then they'll just leap the chasm over to the other side, the moral side: we have to change it because it's the moral thing to do. It's wrong to make a woman search for a back-alley abortion; it's wrong to let people blow their cigarette smoke in my face, it's wrong to serve hormone- and antibiotic-laden beef in a restaurant...
And on they go, completely oblivious to the inconsistency.
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