| > thinly veiled attack It's not veiled at all. > massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake It is indeed a personal choice, and that's part of the argument against it being taxpayer-funded. For example, do you think cosmetic surgeries should be taxpayer-funded? They are also often very important for the person who wants to go through them, are costly, and sometimes have long recovery periods. > The oddest part is that one would expect the right should support the You are, of course, making a grotesque caricature of your political opponents. Here, the issue is simply that they don't want to pay for a surgery they see as immoral, barbaric, and unnecessary. |
And the right make those caricatures entirely on their own. They are indeed immoral and barbaric. Have you been amongst conservatives discussing prison sentences for pedophiles lately? They bay for blood, call for extreme, vicious violence and death against such criminals. If such talk is to be believed, then they do not believe in the justice system, but in vigilante justice. I feel no commonality with such unprincipled people, even if our views on other issues are not so different.