akuma587 on 26 November 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:
MrBubbles said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
If we allow Prop 8 to pass, THAT will be a blow to democracy, because that will allow any majority to discriminate against the minority.
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democracy allows the majority to discriminate against a minority if its their will.
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Then it's a good thing we don't live in a democracy.
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And how. Every social arrangement, including democracy, has its downsides. Pure democracy allows the majority to tyrannize the minority, which is something the Founding Fathers were luckily against on a fundamental level.
I just think it is funny how so many people act like it is the courts who are going to far when you could just as effectively argue that it is the people who have gone too far and have undercut the principles of the Constitution.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
