The unintended consquences of Jurassic Park were dinosaurs eating people. The unintended consequences of gay marriage is santorum all over the nice sheets your brother gave you at the reception.
You know why this analogy really doesn't work? Any three-year-old can see the precise stupidity in cloning hundreds of dinosaurs for a theme park, because if you didn't know that was going to happen you wouldn't watch the movie. But the social side effects of gay marriage aren't nearly as obvious, which is why O'Reilly has to compare them to Jurassic Park because he doesn't know why it's bad either. Note that in Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm never has to compare the park to something else to make his point, because he can just say "this is dumb because the dinosaurs will eat us."
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Date: 2005-04-13 06:12 pm (UTC)Like...a Billy O'Reilly?
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Date: 2005-04-13 06:29 pm (UTC)The unintended consquences of Jurassic Park were dinosaurs eating people. The unintended consequences of gay marriage is santorum all over the nice sheets your brother gave you at the reception.
You know why this analogy really doesn't work? Any three-year-old can see the precise stupidity in cloning hundreds of dinosaurs for a theme park, because if you didn't know that was going to happen you wouldn't watch the movie. But the social side effects of gay marriage aren't nearly as obvious, which is why O'Reilly has to compare them to Jurassic Park because he doesn't know why it's bad either. Note that in Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm never has to compare the park to something else to make his point, because he can just say "this is dumb because the dinosaurs will eat us."
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Date: 2005-04-13 08:38 pm (UTC)