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To: general_re
"But, if you persuade enough people of the rightness of your position, then it will be so."

Indeed.

"The best way to do that might be to discuss how the law should be, rather than trying to persuade people that your interpretion represents the law as it is..."

You can hardly hope to overthrow the current order by conceding its legitimacy.
666 posted on 12/22/2002 2:54:37 AM PST by Tauzero
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To: Tauzero
You can hardly hope to overthrow the current order by conceding its legitimacy.

You really have two choices. One, you can work within the system to try to change it by persuading others that your ideas are better. Of course, by doing that, you are implicitly conceding the legitimacy of the laws you oppose by participating in the same process that produced those laws, but arguing that they are wrong or a bad idea or some such. Or, you can refuse to concede their legitimacy, and embark instead on a campaign of civil disobedience and non-compliance with the laws that currently exist. In this case, pragmatic soul that I am, I suggest that the first option is somewhat more likely to succeed than the second.

712 posted on 12/22/2002 8:25:40 AM PST by general_re
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