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originally posted by: introvert
I haven't forgotten about this thread or the ideas you have posited, Gryph.
This thread has really forced me to rethink some things and I have not found the best way to present those "thoughts".
the rights of the minority are not superseded by the will of the many.
originally posted by: desert
a reply to: TheRedneck
Before the internet, I never would have been privileged to read what you have written. This is the up side to the internet.
You have made a choice to change things in your life, important things. Positive changes. You have not gotten stuck in thinking that no longer works for you. And you have been brave enough to change.
Tyranny: rule over a population which demonstrates a habitual propensity toward denial of life, health, safety, liberty, and/or welfare of the population at large in favor of convenience of the ruler(s).
2. Blaming inanimate objects is a form of idolatry, giving them secret powers and a spirit. Stop right now and think long and hard about how inanimate objects can have powers.
originally posted by: tkwasny
1. There will always be evil or mentally ill people. No laws can stop evil or mental illness. Laws exist only to DEFINE THE CULTURE of the society we strive as establish as our Utopia.
2. Blaming inanimate objects is a form of idolatry, giving them secret powers and a spirit. Stop right now and think long and hard about how inanimate objects can have powers.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
I think we forget just how much we have come to take things for granted in America.
The Declaration of Independence was the first time in recorded human history that a group of people officially stood up and dismissed their King and formed their own polity based on merits not conquest. THE FIRST TIME.
......
I would say that most of us have no idea of what real "tyranny" looks like.
.... I believe we ignore them at the peril not just of violence, but of the quality of the American soul.
(This didn't turn out at all like I intended; I broke my own rule. Mea culpa.)