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Leopolds Ghost

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2. I would imagine so, but... see last paragraph
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 08:33 AM
Feb 2012

It seems like the new idea, in the absence of universal civics education, is that the rules involving protection of the minority only apply when they are not inconvenient, and must be changed to prohibit inconvenience to the majority... even when the mionority in this case speak for the majority. We've grown soft as a society lots of people are willing to trade principles for stability and convenience...

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