I guess those are the two areas where everyone is desperate to be right, since they have so much riding on it.

because people believe strongly in whatever it is they believe and people decide to try and put them down for it. im sure some people come on here to cause misery for others with some of the questions and answers ive seen today

Verbal debate please, not violence. WE all have and are within our rights to have different opinions on a subject this is a forum for expressing those opinions so you will always get many differences

Because everyone has their own opinion about what's right/wrong with those topics and sometimes they are taught to believe something else is wrong.

As to the question I know you are referring to, it is because people have different opinions. Some people are bigoted, and they will rate you down on your opinion. Many people tend to stay away from those questions. If people could get along better with their opinions, it wouldn't be such as mess.

Because people have very strong opinions on these three subjects and most people think their opinion is right.

The problem with these kinds of arguments is that people get married to their viewpoint , and then feel they have to defend it to the death. To just walk away is hard, because the mind always spits out the thought “yeah, but you don’t understand…” and launches right into the next counter-argument. Everyone has this “disease” in varying degrees: the commitment to being right about our views. The world is awash in viewpoints, and in people who are willing to defend theirs to the death, and attack others until their “opponents” are vanquished. The root of this behavior has to do with our notions of who we are. The mind has a tendency to “identify” with opinions and viewpoints, as a way of giving ourselves a fixed sense of self – a way of knowing who we are. Once we’ve done that – once we identify with a viewpoint or opinion – then defending that opinion gets promoted to almost the same level of priority as defending our actual life: adrenaline flows, fight-or-flight reflexes kick in, we will stomp anyone who gets in our way and make enemies as fast as we can say “I’m right and you’re wrong”. It’s really a trap of the mind that has serious consequences in our world: it’s not that there’s anything wrong with having opinions, or that everyone should all have the same views – it’s that when we DEFINE ourselves in terms of those views, we will stop at nothing to make those views survive and “win”. We lose all perspective. So the ultimate solution for this preoccupation or obsession is to come up with a better way to answer the question “who am I?” – people need an answer which doesn’t include “I’m a Republican”, “I’m a Democrat”, “I believe in aliens”, “I think people should be required to take a course in child-rearing before they have children”, etc. Again, it’s not a problem to have these positions, it’s a problem to see them as the answer to “who am I?”. That takes some time for everyone to work out, and in fact many people never do.

These are the issues that people often have the strongest feelings about, and at the same time are the most diverse in how people feel. You rarely "almost agree" on these issues with someone. It's either that you agree, or disagree. These are also issues that each side believe they have valid reasons or proof to support their side. There's a reason these are issues you should never bring up at a dinner party.