When you begin to listen to and believe the thoughts and opinions of those who could not possibly understand over the advocation of those who truly do, you have taken the first step of emboldening an opinion based solely on fear into your contrived version of reality; one that you know or knew, at one point, to not be true, but only wished that it were because it justifies your worst and most self-loathing-inspiring nature. You’ve replaced rational logic with selfish rhetoric and decided to pretend to accept it as real beyond all good and decent reason.
Joseph D. Newcomer 