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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.222925.11481@microsoft.com>
- Date: 06 Jan 93 22:29:25 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <8328@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan5.164051.3929@tc.cornell.edu> <8330@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <8330@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.164051.3929@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- Of course, majority rule democracy gave us slavery, which
- everone knows was a good thing because most people supported it
- at the time.
- Just because most people believe it doesn't make it right.
-
- -Phil
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- Note: Microsoft doesn't even _know_ that these are my opinions. So there.
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