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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:59:23 GMT
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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 ;-)
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> 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.
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
Horst (who is a bit behind in reading news ...)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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