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Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 29 Aug 1999 01:35:13 GMT
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onyx wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
> > So if the majority of Americans decided that homosexuality was a
> > jailable offense, you'd be all right with that?
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> uhhh.. pardom me if I.Q.s just dropped sharply while i was away (name that
> movie!)... but isn't that the definition of a little thing called democracy???
Aliens - Ripley's talking to the WY (The Corporation) inquest about the
presence of aliens on LV-426 (or whatever).
Right! That's big failing of a democracy. The majority gets to dictate.
> (first, let me state that the issue you spoke is irrelevant in my arguement, i
> don't want homophobia to be the focal point)..
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> but currently the majority of americans think marijuana should be illegal
Is it to be taken that you want marijuana to be the main point instead
of homosexuality under the law?
> (something that i *strongly* agree WITH) and so it is... and if one day the
> majority of americans believes the other way, then guess what, odds are the
> laws will change.. i won't like it, but that's the way democracy works.. public
> OPINION guides the judicial process... (the process is heavily muddled due to
> public representation which can be fiddled with, i.e. corrupt officials,
> lobbying, riders, etc) but the overall idea is simple.. what we *mostly* all
> agree on, we eventually make law...
Does that make it right? Why not shoot for laws that are just instead
of ones that reflect popular opinion?
> another case.. OJ... too damned many people loved "da juice", so the p***k got
> off... i don't like it.. but what are you going to do?
Hunh? A) I don't think that he got off. B) I don't think it had
anything to do with public opinion. There was a trial.
--Chris
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