To: Tailgunner Joe
Cigarette smokers are a numerical minority, practicing a habit considered annoying and unpleasant to the majority. So the majority has simply commandeered the power of government and used it to dictate their behavior.
Although I agree with the author's main point, the kind of logic displayed in the above statement won't help him. My guess is that Tracinski would complain that the minority has simply "commandeered the power of the government" in other areas.
5 posted on
05/27/2003 12:25:11 PM PDT by
aardvark1
To: aardvark1
In matters of conscience, ignore the majority.
9 posted on
05/27/2003 12:30:07 PM PDT by
Tailgunner Joe
(Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't)
To: aardvark1
TracinskiI hate to show my ignorance but who?
15 posted on
05/27/2003 12:52:00 PM PDT by
Mister Baredog
((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
To: aardvark1
Although I agree with the author's main point, the kind of logic displayed in the above statement won't help him. My guess is that Tracinski would complain that the minority has simply "commandeered the power of the government" in other areas.Nice sidestep...don't address the logic directly (because you can't), so try to turn it around and point it the other way...transparent as glass, my friend.
The whole point of this article is that neither majority or minority have the right to use government to advance their viewpoint, when that involves trampling the rights of a few "for the good of the many".
So which to you is more true?: The needs (rights) of the many outweigh the needs (rights) of the few (or the one), or The needs (rights) of the few (or the one) outweigh the needs (rights) of the many?
141 posted on
05/28/2003 11:31:55 AM PDT by
nobdysfool
(Every time I learn something new, it pushes something old out of my brain...Homer Simpson)
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