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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> EarthNSky wrote:
>
> > Ok, so let's go back to what you said before, the first and second 
> > sentences above.  Playing devil's advocate, if the majority is not 
> > supposed to draw the line...who does?
>
> I think the majority SHOULD make the rules; that's the way a democracy 
> works. I would hope that they would provide for a lot of personal 
> freedoms, but I'm seeing people hand over more and more power to the 
> government. 

But Lynn, when majority rules on where to draw the line on tolerance, 
very often, it is done unfairly to the minority party.  For a literal 
example, consider the busing issue during the time we were transitioning 
from educational segregation to integration.   If it were right that 
majority should rule, then there would be no integration.  The line 
would have been drawn at the RR tracks or wherever.  Today, we know that 
even if there is only 1 person of a minority population in a larger 
population, that person has the same rights as the rest of the 
population, and even if that person is Satan, Satan's spawn still have a 
right to go to school with your kids.
Shoot, I got distracted and lost my train of thought...oh well...later..

Bev
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