To: Libertarianize the GOP
Fine, change the numbers to 67% or 76% white supremacists, or whatever your supermajority level is. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some places in the Deep South of the past that were 90% white supremacists and 10% black. You are evading the question: What then?
To: coloradan
And what is your alternative; the only alternative I can find to allowing a super majority to pass stupid discriminatory laws is to allow some dictator or aristocracy to over rule the majority. Unless I happen to be the dictator the best alternative is to trust the opinion of most all my neighbors or move to a friendlier neighborhood.
To: coloradan
Fine, change the numbers to 67% or 76% white supremacists, or whatever your supermajority level is. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some places in the Deep South of the past that were 90% white supremacists and 10% black. You are evading the question: What then?
In case you weren't aware, the L.P. has a plank which calls for the dismantling of our civil rights laws, essentially making it legal to say "We don't serve those of race X here." And here you are now whining about Jim Crow laws. Do you favor the repeal of civil rights legislation? Being conservative means we are big on justice, and prejudice is an injustice.
To: coloradan; Cultural Jihad; Libertarianize the GOP
Didn't you take up an argument to justify reasons not to allow simple and super majority imposition of moral beliefs as law?
In a place that has 51% white supremists, 39% whites, and 10% blacks, there would be a majority vote for Jim Crow laws, which the white supremists would argue are moral and just. What then?
From:
I would support legislating morality anytime a super majority agrees and a simple majority could reverse the law. I believe any issue of morality that has the support of almost everyone would be a legitimate law.
and end up arguing over:
In case you weren't aware, the L.P. has a plank which calls for the dismantling of our civil rights laws, essentially making it legal to say "We don't serve those of race X here." And here you are now whining about Jim Crow laws.
What was the point of all this and how it relates to legislating religious morality or any other label for morality? Maybe you guys should shake hands, I think most of this was context twisting.
145 posted on
02/09/2003 1:51:22 AM PST by
Magoo
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