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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Bev; do you have an answer? How should society decide whether to push 
for busing or segregation (or something else)? How should it decide 
whether to allow everyone in the population to vote, or only certain 
people? How should it decide whether to allow some people to marry and 
other not? Or should the government not get involved in any of that and 
let the populous duke it out? I'm not really political enough to have a 
strong opinion on exactly HOW a government should operate, except that 
it should allow as much personal freedom as possible.

Lynn Wigglesworth


EarthNSky wrote:
> 
> 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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