Poll: How do you feel about interracial marriages?

[Wintermoot]

when a person loves a other person who are we to stop them from marrying?
regardless of race or sex.

 

[deadish]

Yes.

Strange as it is. Yes.

Hey, this is just the way I feel.

/shrug

Well... the women dating guys not from your race aren't interested in you. So they're not your dating prospects either, they are taken. Just like the girls dating guys from your race.
Makes no sense.

You dont have `dibs` on any prospective girl, so when she dates someone, regardless of colour, you have no right to get iffy about it.

It's not a matter of dibs. If I find the girl attractive, then she is part of my "pool of potential suiters", and it just shrink. My brain reacts by going "DAmn it!!!"

 

[deadish]

Like I said, you are making the stupid assumption that it is the default for someone to marry in their own race. You say they are out of a mate, but that is only true if they would only marry someone within their own race. That you make such an assumption just goes to prove my point.

I'm not saying it's default, I don't believe that anything is "default" in the world. It's just that I prefer it that way because it maximizes my "pool of potential suitors".

All I did was point out that you're racist. It's a fact based on you giving out racist views. =|

Really ...

Lol, pathetic. I point out it's racist and you cry about not bending over and forcing oneself to change it. You say you're against interracial marriages. That you even think it's acceptable to say as much goes to show the problem.

No. No. No ad hominem at all.

 

[Phasmal]

It's not a matter of dibs. If I find the girl attractive, then she is part of my "pool of potential suiters", and it just shrink. My brain reacts by going "DAmn it!!!"

Ya, I know it's not really logical. I know. I know.

Tbh it makes you sound like a creeper.
And doesn't it matter what the girl thinks? She could be attractive, but also completely repulsed by you. If someone decides to date someone, they aren't going to date you. So don't let it bother you. The statistical `imbalance` caused by dating someone outside your race is too small to even matter, really.
If I guy told me thats what he thought when he sees interracial couples I would not touch him with a ten foot pole.
You can think what you like, of course, but it doesnt make you look like a nice guy.

 

[deadish]

Which is a lie. If you want to maximize it then you should want all other people of your race that you're not interested in to marry outside of your race.

I'm not interested because I don't find them attractive. It's has nothing to do with race, but more to do with "personality" (basically behavior) and looks - OK, at large part of it is looks; I'm a guy, alright, what do you expect.

Look, if someday I find someone outside my ethic who I find attractive. My position will change pretty quick! [1]

No, it isn't ad hominem. Sorry, internet scholar, but ad hominem is to replace an actual argument with an attack on someone. If I said "No, you're wrong because you're a racist" that would be ad hominem. If I say "No, you racist, you're wrong because of X" then that is not.

You called me "pathetic" and that is not an attack on my person? That line was completely unnecessary and adds nothing to your argument.

[1] My math won't hold anymore.

 

[deadish]

Tbh it makes you sound like a creeper.
And doesn't it matter what the girl thinks? She could be attractive, but also completely repulsed by you. If someone decides to date someone, they aren't going to date you.

See. We are talking about "potential dating pool". "Potential" being a key word.

And IMO the large the pool is the better, as the chances you will meet someone compatible increases.

So don't let it bother you. The statistical `imbalance` caused by dating someone outside your race is too small to even matter, really.
If I guy told me thats what he thought when he sees interracial couples I would not touch him with a ten foot pole.
You can think what you like, of course, but it doesnt make you look like a nice guy.

Tell, that to the guys that ends up forever alone because of it. Every bit counts. :x We have stuff like natural disasters / natural causes messing up the ratio already, no need to make it worst.

 

[Phasmal]

Tell, that to the guys that ends up forever alone because of it. Every bit counts. :x We have stuff like natural disasters / natural causes messing up the ratio already, no need to make it worst.

No, what makes those guys forever alone is their personalities, their women issues or other things.

And also thinking of women purely in terms of numbers, (because it doesn't matter which one you get as long as you have one). Thats what will make you forever alone.
Stop focusing on other guys, be a nicer guy, stop thinking in maths and perhaps you wont end up forever alone.

 

[deadish]

Dodging the point I made. I did not say anything about what you find attractive. I pointed out that your 'math' does not work out. You should be getting mad at guys of your own race as well. Also now you're tying race into personality. Mhm, sure you're not racist.

Oh god, I got a headache now.

In what way does my math not work out. I will like to see you explain.

Is there some problem where you can't read what I just wrote? I wouldn't say pathetic is an attack on your person so much as your position, but either way it takes more than that for it to be ad hominem. And I just told you why. Are you just being willfully ignorant of it at this point?

Is still an attack on me in a sense. You are attacking my argument, not by refuting it, but by labeling it "pathetic" indirectly attacking me. It's like taunting your opponent in a fist fight. "You call that a punch, granny?".

 

[deadish]

No, what makes those guys forever alone is their personalities, their women issues or other things.

And also thinking of women purely in terms of numbers, (because it doesn't matter which one you get as long as you have one). Thats what will make you forever alone.
Stop focusing on other guys, be a nicer guy, stop thinking in maths and perhaps you wont end up forever alone.

Hey, the maths don't lie, man.

If all the women are already taken, it won't matter if you have super personality.

I'm an engineer, so numbers are the way I see things and of course I don't use it when it doesn't apply, like in conversing / dealing with people - which admittedly isn't one of my strong points; but it has nothing to do with math.

 

[deadish]

Well I suppose a headache might be an excuse for you asking for something I already blatantly spelled out.

Someone in your own race getting a girl of your race still reduces your chances. Ergo your excuse for thinly veiled racism doesn't work out. You should be disapproving of anyone who gets with a girl of your race.

Explain where my math is wrong, which part. Don't you dare dodge the question.

If you feel like looking at it as an attack on you, be my guest. I don't really care if you feel that way.

But anyway, it isn't ad hominem for the reasons I laid out. I did not say it was wrong due to that. And I made another argument against it.

LOL. Your get out of jail free card when you have nothing left to say. Heh.

 

[Phasmal]

No, what makes those guys forever alone is their personalities, their women issues or other things.

And also thinking of women purely in terms of numbers, (because it doesn't matter which one you get as long as you have one). Thats what will make you forever alone.
Stop focusing on other guys, be a nicer guy, stop thinking in maths and perhaps you wont end up forever alone.

Hey, the maths don't lie, man.

If all the women are already taken, it won't matter if you have super personality.

I'm an engineer, so numbers are the way I see things and of course I don't use it when it doesn't apply, like in conversing / dealing with people.

Hey, I'm no man.

And yes it will, because women are not things. They are not `owned`. They can change their mind, relationships dont last forever and its very unlikely all women are taken.
Plus- dealing with women is dealing with people. So lay off the maths.
If you prefer to think in maths, the majority of people do end up getting married at some point (the success of which would be completely up to you and your POTENTIAL lady).


So relax, dont get jealous of random guys (its not attractive).

 

[deadish]

Hey, I'm no man.

And yes it will, because women are not things. They are not `owned`. They can change their mind, relationships dont last forever and its very unlikely all women are taken.
Plus- dealing with women is dealing with people. So lay off the maths.
If you prefer to think in maths, the majority of people do end up getting married at some point (the success of which would be completely up to you and your POTENTIAL lady).


So relax, dont get jealous of random guys (its not attractive).

I know. I know.

But I'm one of those people that "think too much" and ended up doing the math and making myself miserable. I suppose this is one of those cases, where "Ignorance is bliss".

 

[scorptatious]

I have nothing against interracial marriages. I have no business judging someone on who they're going to marry.

 

[deadish]

I just explained it. In bold. This is getting stupid beyond belief.

That has nothing to do with my math. You just state a conclusion without justifying it.

I starting to believe you don't understand my argument. If so, then I think continuing this conversation is pointless. Neither of us will gain anything from continuing it.

You didn't make a real argument for it, and I don't care if it is an indirect attack on you.

LOL. Whatever you say, dude. But being obstinate isn't a "method of argument". It might work with your parents or your boyfriend/girlfriend, but it isn't going to work on a stranger online like me.

You're a racist so...

Not to be mean. But, you argue like a 10 year old. LOL.

 

[lacktheknack]

wat

Clearly, I'm missing something here. Do interracial marriages fail more often? Um... is there any other possible reasoning beyond "LYNCH ALL THE THINGS"?

 

[Bvenged]

How do you feel about interracial marriages?

I'm all for them.
90.7% (224)

They can work, but it's difficult.
3.6% (9)

I'm against them.
5.3% (13)

Our marriage is interracial.
0.4% (1)

I was going praise the internet on this one, but the original poll was the internet too. I'm at a loss ... oh wait I've got it! I'm going to settle my verdict with
:
If anyone calls you closed-minded, stupid or childish for being a gamer. Metaphorically punch them in the face. This poll right here, taken from a gaming forum, in contrast to a poll taken from a news website, proves in some circumstance that demographically gamers are better people than news readers in the geographical area of the original poll.