Outrage as Tesco backs gay festival... but drops support for cancer charity event

[semi-pro waster]

Its the fact they dropped cancer support to support gay pride.

No, they haven't. Even a cursory glance at the story in question should tell you that an average annual £700k* commitment is not replaced by a £30k donation to the Gay Pride event - the stories are unlinked except in the mind of the Daily Mail and those others who choose to somehow equivilate the two.

In fact let's do this with all the zeros in £700,000 vs £30,000 - do you seriously think that one is supposed to directly replace the other?

*£7m since 2002, let's say that's 10 years for the sake of simplicity and that each year was a roughly equal amount.

 

[Locky]

The gays have to buy food shopping too

 

[Hitman_Leon]

i wouldnt say its normal, its not the complete natural way. but each to their own, as long as they keep it to themselves and not near me all is well

I think in the general scheme of things people tend to keep it away from anyone, it's not exactly a spectator event.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

The gays have to buy food shopping too

I thought they only ate children, you mean to tell me all these years i've spent shopping in the company of such people......

 

[Tefal]

No, they haven't. Even a cursory glance at the story in question should tell you that an average annual £700k* commitment is not replaced by a £30k donation to the Gay Pride event - the stories are unlinked except in the mind of the Daily Mail and those others who choose to somehow equivilate the two.

In fact let's do this with all the zeros in £700,000 vs £30,000 - do you seriously think that one is supposed to directly replace the other?

*£7m since 2002, let's say that's 10 years for the sake of simplicity and that each year was a roughly equal amount.

Not to mention thier total charity budget for the year is in excess of £60 million if it's anything like last year.

and they're still paying any staff/organising the time for them, who run the race for life so will still be paying thousands of pounds

 

[Tefal]

i wouldnt say its normal, its not the complete natural way

If it wasn't natural nature wouldn't have made them that way.

 

[spudbynight]

If it wasn't natural nature wouldn't have made them that way.

In fairness by that logic nature makes paedophiles as well.

 

[MrMoonX]

Its the fact they dropped cancer support to support the poofs.

and cancer is more important than any other charity because?

 

[Dolph]

So them sponsoring a sexist charity event (race for life) is ok, but them sponsoring an inclusive sexuality event is not?

Well, it's a position I suppose...

 

[Tefal]

In fairness by that logic nature makes paedophiles as well.

Or god does.

 

[semi-pro waster]

In fairness by that logic nature makes paedophiles as well.

It is a fairly sound logical assumption unless there's another one that you can put forward.

Comparing paedophilia with homosexuality isn't entirely fair either except insofar as they are both "different" to sexual norms. Homosexual sex on its own harms no one provided all parties are able to give informed consent, you cannot say the same if a paedophile acts on their sexual urges - there's a lack of consent and that automatically renders the comparison invalid.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

you cannot say the same if a paedophile acts on their sexual urges - there's a lack of consent and that automatically renders the comparison invalid.

And in that sense automatically puts paedophiles in the sexual predators group, since these beings 'not people, people have morals and standards' create harm with every action they take on their urges they have nothing in common with any of the three accepted normal standards of sexuality.

Waster sir I salute you're wisdom.

 

[steve-h]

In fairness by that logic nature makes paedophiles as well.

Yes... problem?

 

[Hitman_Leon]

Yes... problem?

I don't think he has a problem, he's just pointing out the obvious 'nature makes monsters'.

 

[steve-h]

I don't think he has a problem, he's just pointing out the obvious 'nature makes monsters'.

I don't believe he was.

 

[Robbo]

I look forward to future 'paedophile pride' parades.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

I look forward to future 'paedophile pride' parades.

As I clean and oil my rifle I try to visualise the venue, high buildings are a must with no obvious nearby cover for the vermin to retreat to.

 

[semi-pro waster]

And in that sense automatically puts paedophiles in the sexual predators group, since these beings 'not people, people have morals and standards' create harm with every action they take on their urges they have nothing in common with any of the three accepted normal standards of sexuality.

Waster sir I salute you're wisdom.

That wasn't really where I was going with that particular argument. I don't believe that paedophiles are somehow less than human, at the risk of taking this off-topic I think they need help as far as possible rather than just castigation and punishment. It's a problem if the paedophile acts on their urges, up to that point it may be morally repugnant to most but there is no actual harm done as thought crime is not and never should be illegal.

 

[MrMoonX]

So them sponsoring a sexist charity event (race for life) is ok, but them sponsoring an inclusive sexuality event is not?

Well, it's a position I suppose...

**** me you said something i can agree with, why the **** can't i do race for life of right yeah i have a penis, **** you race for life

 

[Hitman_Leon]

It's a problem if the paedophile acts on their urges, up to that point it may be morally repugnant to most but there is no actual harm done as thought crime is not and never should be illegal.

I was actually following on from where you left off; maybe I was not quite clear enough, classing the one's who act out their urges as predators. In all probability you could class the one's who don't act out their urges as morally competent because they have the sense to realise that the urges they have are wrong and restrain their actions, although the urges are wrong they morally do the right thing.