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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: 5 Jan 1993 17:21:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.164051.3929@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >Society cannt decide about anything. Only humans can have the ability
- >to decide.
-
- One of the ground rules of any society is that decisions made by whatever
- means that society has for reaching decisions are decisions of the whole
- society. In American society (the one, after all, whose rules/laws MS must
- operate under), decisions made by the lawmaking bodies are, by definition,
- decisions of society.
-
- >A better statement is that the _majority_ of individuals voted for
- >a certain law, and are imposing their will on the minority that
- >disagree. That does not make a law in any way more fair or practical.
-
- This is an argument against a majority-rule democracy. It holds little water,
- however, unless you can somehow provide a better solution.
-
- (Quoting .signatures is an unnecessary waste of bandwidth.)
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
- -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of all Fears_
-