Yes. This.

[fairyrune]

"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," - Brad Pitt.

He's talking about the vote that's coming up in California on whether or not gays should have the right to marry.

I liked him as an actor before, and I like him even more now.

Comments

[woodchuck665.livejournal.com]

Two things here: One, does his statement mean more or less considering that it's an almost direct quote of a Captain America comic? And two, just to play a little devil's advocate here, since no one has the right to deny another their life, I wonder if he'd apply the same statement to the abortion debate?

[fairyrune]

1. I have no idea.
2. You're not the first to mention that, and I suppose it depends on when you consider the beginning of life to be. Is a fetus "alive" from the moment of conception? Once there's blood? Once there's a heartbeat? Once it could conceivably survive outside the womb?

[woodchuck665.livejournal.com]

1) Probably a coincidence actually, it's reasonably standard phrasing. I just thought it was funny. Maybe he's shilling for a role in the movie. ;-)
2) That's where the real debate is, or at least should be. I don't think most rational people think that taking a pill at two days is wrong or that waiting until the 8th month is right (but like you said below, there is a dearth of rational people). The question is all those grey areas inbetween.

[fairyrune]

1. OMG. I'd go see a Capt. America movie if it starred him!
2. I agree completely. I think regardless of what you, me, or anyone else thinks, the option should be available, within reason of course. I don't think abortion should be used as birth control, and I certainly don't think that partial birth abortions should be legal, but no one has the right to tell anyone else how to live their lives.

Of course, I also think that pot and prostitution should be legalized, regulated, and taxed to high hell.