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British hunting group to take legal action to become protected minority group. Hunters have good chance of obtaining same status as Gypsies and LGBT people, campaigners say (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The difference between all of the others--excepting religion--and hunting, is that the other statuses are ones that you have by virtue of being born, rather than through choices you make, or the way you're raised. That is, you can't choose the family that you're born to, nor can you choose your sexual orientation. You choose to be a hunter though, and you can choose to not hunt. (Religion is much the same, but for some reason we've put religion on a different moral pedestal, even though it's clearly a choice rather than inherent.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Religion is not a choice in most instances where religious persecution actually becomes relevant.
In countries where Jews, or Christians, or Muslims, or Buddhists, or members of any other religion are killed, displaced and oppressed, none of the oppressors ask how strong your faith actually is. You could actually have turned your back on your family's religion, you'd still be lumped in with them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Religion is not a choice in most instances where religious persecution actually becomes relevant.

That's not a realistic issue in England though; honor killings, etc. aren't really a practical fear there, any more than getting murdered by Mormon Danites was for me when I left the Mormons. Yeah, you def. lose your family and friends, but that would also be the results I would have if I defected from rational thought to MAGA.