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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
BUT, if you're at dinner with many guests, and everybody is paying, you don't get to gripe about the vino flowing.
This issue is simple... Some folks don't have strong belief systems. I'm one of them. I just do what I do and accomodate others. Seems fair and its an easy comprimise which always keeps the peace. HOWEVER, there are these other people who feel strongly about certain things, and they don't comprimise. They "break the peace" so to say, for their own selfish reasons. They complicate everything, and that's annoying. I tolerate them (and it takes tremendoud tongue biting), so I don't understand why they won't tolerate me.
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Have you been out with non-drinkers who griped about your drinking at dinner? (Unless of course you expect them to pay for the booze by splitting the bill evenly; that is fair cause for griping.) I've never experienced that.
The only vegetarian who's ever berated me for eating meat was Paigow.
This is not to say there are not issues where people on both ends of religious and political belief want to force everyone to accept things their way, such abortion, homosexuality and religious expression in public. I just haven't experienced a lot of it with the smaller issues like food and drink.
