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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (21715)	5/17/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Hmmm. Where to begin? Well for starters, who are the people who benefit through no value of their own? Please describe these people. And what would you do with them? And what kind of society would we live in after you got done doing whatever it is you think you would like to do? Mob rule? Well, we live in a democracy- isn't that the closest thing to freedom? There is really no better example of pure democracy than a lynch mob. Those are people who really know what they want and have voted with their actions. Rule of the people can be a frightening thing. That is why I like the minority protections (and I mean minority in the sense of not being in the majority of thought- not in the sense of an individual of some particular skin color) offered by the Constitution. Democracy tempered, becomes representative government. Is it pure- NO. But pure things rarely stay pure. Like capitalism. And pure things are rarely as salubrious as people think they will be. It is EXTREMIST to believe that any one way is the right and only way.

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