Altogether off the mark, Ake. The words have particular meaning.

Mass means held by large numbers of people in agreement, with connotations of thinking as a group, not as individuals.

Reactionary means responding to a stimulus, without inspection, on a somewhat blind response basis rather than by differentiating and discriminating.

The push-button reaction is based on fear. For example, believing that there is something dangerous about allowing adult individuals to legally marry, because they belong to a different life-style set than oneself. There is no danger inherent in such a freedom.

There is nothing unhealthy about legally honoring individuals who wish to make a permanent commitment to each other. Believing that the act of marriage is the "same" as any health vectors involved in sexual practices in a large unmarried population is a clear example of blind associations, reacting to categories instead of the actual elements being discussed. This "categorical association" as a basis for what one feels "must happen" or "must not happen" is just reaction, not analysis.

As to what line of thought I hold, I will thank you not to tuck it into your neat little boxes. I have explained myself completely clearly to you over and over again, and you persist in ignoring my insistence that things which are different be differentiated.

If that is your actual choice, then go on your way--knowing you have chosen to think automatically instead of consciously, because you could not be arsed to look clearly at what you saw.

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