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May 22 2012 05:32pm
Quote (Voyaging @ May 22 2012 03:31pm)
Of course it CAN be done. The issue is SHOULD it be done?


We're speaking strictly in hypotheticals. If enough people felt strongly enough against bacon, why SHOULDN'T it be banned? Would we not be infringing on their pursuit of happiness? It's really a balance of rights here...
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May 22 2012 05:33pm
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Of course it CAN be done. The issue is SHOULD it be done?


...which all depends on the individual and the issue . I want abortion banned on moral grounds and I think it should be done .
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May 22 2012 05:34pm
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We're speaking strictly in hypotheticals.  If enough people felt strongly enough against bacon, why SHOULDN'T it be banned?  Would we not be infringing on their pursuit of happiness?  It's really a balance of rights here...


Your right to swing your fist extends to the bridge of my nose.
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May 22 2012 05:35pm
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Your right to swing your fist extends to the bridge of my nose.


Says who?

What happens if most people fundamentally disagree with that philosophy?
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Your right to swing your fist extends to the bridge of my nose.


...you might want to have an otorhinolaryngologist on speed dial :rolleyes:
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May 22 2012 05:41pm
Quote (thundercock @ May 22 2012 07:32pm)
We're speaking strictly in hypotheticals.  If enough people felt strongly enough against bacon, why SHOULDN'T it be banned?  Would we not be infringing on their pursuit of happiness?  It's really a balance of rights here...


So if 50%+ of the population are Nazis and want Jews to all be burned, then it ought to be done?
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May 22 2012 05:45pm
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So if 50%+ of the population are Nazis and want Jews to all be burned, then it ought to be done?


Unfortunately, yes. It's unlikely that a population like that would ever have agreed on "rights for the minority."
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May 22 2012 05:51pm
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Unfortunately, yes.  It's unlikely that a population like that would ever have agreed on "rights for the minority."


Then you have an abysmal moral compass and should be ashamed of yourself.
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Then you have an abysmal moral compass and should be ashamed of yourself.


How is my moral compass abysmal? If the government doesn't grant people rights to be protected...how can they be protected?
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Then you have an abysmal moral compass and should be ashamed of yourself.


...you sound like me speaking to the pro-abortionists .
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