09-23-2012, 12:24 AM
I think about a person talking and a dog starts barking, and the person responds to the dog with insults or violence, as if the dog had disrespected him. As if a dog lives by human rules. And people insult others by calling them a dog or a homosexual. That you can be both homosexual and human is obvious; but if you find yourself treated horribly for years by human beings that insist humans are not homosexual you might be moved to feel this way: "Fine, I'd rather not be human. I don't want to be like you. I might be an alien, but you can adjust the laws to consider my existence, and others like me." I read that Tolkien distinguished between his good and bad characters this way: The good can imagine being bad, but the core of the bad's evil was their lack of imagination. The good can empathize with the bad and relate to being evil, but being evil means you can't and won't imagine new things and other ways of life.