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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (25628)	9/1/2001 10:28:39 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Western democracies are constructed around law and the notion of the equality of citizens under the law. The Constitution of the United States is constructed around protecting the rights of the individual. The law is an instrument constructed to guarantee these rights. <All those who respect those things contribute to the success of the democracy. Again, the law is not the thing to respect. It is the rights of the individual. You are saying worship the creation, not the creator. People who are sincerely concerned about the survival of our democracies and have a modicum of common sense recognize the former as the "good guys" and the latter as the "bad guys." All those who seek to make individuals subservient to the law are socialists. Now, we have some people who apparently don't put their priority on the survival of the democracies. They are called socialists. They are driving an unnecessary wedge between two different subsets of good guys by distinguishing between those good guys who respect our laws and their fellow citizens based on their belief in the absolute truth of their beliefs from those good guys who respect our laws and their fellow citizens for some other reason. If the law was subjective, it would mutate according to the will of those in power. If those in power decree that only people who fit a certain genetic profile are allowed to have children, would you still be arguing for the law? They seem to me to be confusing the criteria for what makes a good citizen of a democracy with the criteria for admittance into heaven and, in doing so, alienating their natural allies in making modern democracies a success. Governments serve people, not the other way around. Heaven has nothing to do with it, IMO. The threat of scientism is abundantly clear in the guise of enviromentalism. Our founding fathers were not natural allies, yet they constructed a country that is truly a land of opportunity. Socialists would see to it that there is no opportunity, only government handouts to those who serve the current leader the best. For those who care about the survival of democratic society, this irony is unsettling. Without individuals, there can be no democratic society. The sheer wrong-headedness of scientism is abundantly clear. We had eugenics, we had communism. Total flops that shocked the world. How many shocks does it take to realize that this type of behavior is wrong?