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Originally Posted by westopher
Make no mistake, when someone actively tries to make someones life better, and someone who it has absolutely no negative effect on makes it a problem, there's one side that is clearly wrong and one that is right. You can say it's subjective, but it isn't.
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While you and I may find that something making someone's life better has absolutely no negative effect, or it being a problem -- tampon in the men's bathroom, or getting rid of gender-specific bathrooms to a purely non-gender-specific bathroom, for example -- others may not feel the same way as we would. Another guy might find the tampon machine unnecessary, an another guy might find its presence taking up some perfectly good space that could have been used to install a hand dryer / paper towel dispenser or something else. Or a guy / girl might feel weirded out when they walk out of a stall in a gender-neutral washroom, and see people of the other gender. So in that case, they may feel like they have lost something, and people generally don't like losing stuff.
And then you have the more controversial issues like safe injection sites, social housing, or whatever other topic of the day might be, and then people get really personal about it.
That's the problem with these things -- everyone falls on a different place on the ideological spectrum, and once it becomes personal, everything becomes exponentially difficult.