(Second since I vote, I have the right to complain whether you like it
or not.)
Yes you do. But you have to come to terms
with the fact that a larger number of people
disagree with you.
Disagreeing viewpoints aren't a problem for the majority..it's people
like you that mistakenly feel those who hold views contrary to your own
are somehow of the minority. It's people like you that are unable to
come to terms with the fact that those large number of people who
disagree with you need not conform to what you feel is appropriate.
The majority makes the rules. It's fine that the
rights of the minority are considered but it
makes no logical sense that the needs of that
minority outweighs the needs of the majority.
It doesn't matter which group. When rights are being taken away or
infringed upon, the needs you speak of far outweigh any perceived
majority. You come across as "majority is always right" when it has been
illustrated and accepted the majority has been wrong, especially with
this administration. Recently, a meeting with Greenspan regarding the
Bush administration's way-off predictions concerning the economy went
something like this: Greenspan: "We certainly were wrong on those
figures. We were all wrong."
Hillary Clinton: "Just for the record, we weren't -all- wrong with our
predicted calculations. "
Of course, slavery was accepted by the majority, also. One shouldn't
have to provide countless examples of how "majority" does not equate
morality in any manner, yet you continue to confuse the two.
That's fair as long as the majority is not
expected to abandon its core ideological
values.
It goes both ways. You illustrate perfectly the current political
majority is not only rabid, but has zero tolerance toward any view other
than their own. Like the Bush admin prostitutes religion, you do the
same thing with morals, invoking -your- values as the litmus test and
justification to sit in judgement of others.
Dave
"Sandbagger"
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