Wednesday, October 1, 2008
What is Democracy?
Today in our Humanities class we were discussing what we think a democracy was and we used quotes to gather ideas. We also read an article about democracy and what other people think it is. A quote that caught my attention was by Abraham Lincoln " Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people." I thought that was a pretty good way to put it. It also said that it was majority rules and minority rights. Which means that Majority rules, but it can't be anything that violates Minority rights. Which made me come to a question What about Gay people? They want to get married and their right are being violated to not be able to get married, what makes that different? Why doesn't that law cover them?
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I agree with your last comment, what about them? One question I have now is what qualifies as protecting the minorities rights? and what doesn't?
Yeah, I know, thats odd.
Do you like that quote? Or did you pick it because you had too?
Minority Majority. Sometimes the state of nature seems like a good idea so we don't come up with so many big words.
That was a joke, Lynxes are notorious for making wonderfully witty jokes.
Like that one.
I think Democracy today is working better than it could of turned out to be, but that's just me.
I completely agree. Marriage shouldn't be limited due to ideology. It is unconstitutional. The founding fathers made the constitution vague so it could apart with the people, so why are we staying with the old, harsh ways!
Yes, it is totally outdated. most of the people that I know don't really care about sexual origentation or however you spell the darn thing. What is wrong with two people of the same sex getting married just like a man and a women getting married? CAN SOMEONE PLAESE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME?!
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