Carvet #fundie conservativesforum.com
ELAIU: The best definition of democracy (mob rules) is 3 wolves and a sheep sitting down to discuss what's for dinner.
Another one is 51% of the people vote to hang the other 49%.
A Republic is equal protection under the law for all. Everyone's life, liberty, and property. ( at least theoretically) is protected against the mob rules mentality.
Of course this has been misinterpreted to mean that the needs of the many outweigh the individual rights. Smoking is a prime example of this. Smokers are paying huge taxes and not even given any individual liberty to smoke. Taxation without representation.....bar owners are being told that because they have clients that don't smoke that smoking will be banned by order at gun point if need be. Never mind the rights of the property owner to put up a sign that "this is a smoking establishment , if this bothers you stay out." This is socialism/democracy (mob rules). The need of the many outweigh the needs of the few or individual. Individualism is frowned upon by these wretches.
I probably screwed that up but that is the basic premise.
Oldgirl: How do you apply that to Prop 8 out in CA? The majority has voted. And now I am officially confused. As much as I want to agree with your statement, and I do, in a way, this one baffles me though. If it is good for one group, why not for the other?
Clear it up for me, please.
carvet: Unfortunately, Prop 8 is not an example worthy of analysis since it involves a group of persons that subscribe to a blasphemous life style and therefore have rendered their alleged grievance unsuitable for civil discourse.