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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:16:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
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> > The majority voting to deny even one single person rights,
> > while democratic, is unjust.
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> But who, then, decides what those rights should be. You? Me? Thinking over
> it, I would prefer the second ;-)
There is no perfect scheme but I prefer some process (undefined? what our
founding fathers did? something else?) to ratify some basic set of rights
and then sticking to those rather than allowing 51% majorities to override
them on whim. If different societies do this, but all allow free movement,
over time we will know which set is better by who wants to live where.
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| (...) Whatever we in Germany have set down as basic rights can only be changed with 2/3 (instead of 1/2) of the votes. Not a perfect solution, but there has to be a legal way to change things that don't work well, even with basic rights ... :wq (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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