> Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay.
It's great that people change. It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.
Our aspirations might be vaunting past what humans are generally capable of. I completely agree with you, but since I see over and over (and over) that only direct relationships engender change, I finally conclude that this is where humanity is at. We can call it a bug if we like, but it doesn't mean we can change it.
It only looks like a bug now because we are insisting on building complex, globalized societal configurations which don't play well with that limitation.
Doesn't globalizing promote the creation of more direct relationships, with a broad diversity of people? Giving one a spectrum of ideas and experiences - thereby engendering change?
We are human, experience is how we learn. Rather than moralize against it because there is an ideal human you’d prefer recognize that there is a clear and known path to helping people humanize their worldview through exposure.
Remember how the conservative establish was anti-marijuana, and before that anti-gay (well, still some are), and before that anti-mixed-race-marriage, and before that anti-long hair?
For another example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506
> Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay.
It's great that people change. It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.