The Glade 4.0

"Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder."
It is currently Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:28 am

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 105 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Author Message
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:12 pm 
Offline
adorabalicious
User avatar

Joined: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:54 am
Posts: 5094
NJ, CA, NY not as open minded as Iowa.

*****.

I don't know why everyone is rehashing what I say every single time Taly comes up with a moral attack.

There is moral absolutism, however humans (being the lazy creature we are) are generally not introspective enough to glimpse even a part of it so hold various and divergent moral positions so morality is functionally relative.

_________________
"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:31 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:45 am
Posts: 889
Elmarnieh wrote:
NJ, CA, NY not as open minded as Iowa.

*****.


I'm guessing this is a joke, since the citizens of Iowa got this forced on them by the courts. It's an old story, and I believe there is a move in motion to change what needs to be changed to get the court ruling overturned via legislation.

Same story, different day:

Court, "Gonna be this way."

Citizens, "Just a minute, bucko."

Dunno the status of the movement atm, though.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Re:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:58 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:49 am
Posts: 2410
Beryllin wrote:
Elmarnieh wrote:
NJ, CA, NY not as open minded as Iowa.

*****.


I'm guessing this is a joke, since the citizens of Iowa got this forced on them by the courts.



As it should be. People's rights and equality under the law should not be decided by majority vote. Were that the case, blacks would still not have the right to vote, women would not have the right to vote, and we would still be living in an even more unjust world. This is why we have the courts - to operate as a check to tyranny.

_________________
Image

It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Re:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:04 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:45 am
Posts: 889
Monte wrote:
Beryllin wrote:
Elmarnieh wrote:
NJ, CA, NY not as open minded as Iowa.

*****.


I'm guessing this is a joke, since the citizens of Iowa got this forced on them by the courts.



As it should be. People's rights and equality under the law should not be decided by majority vote. Were that the case, blacks would still not have the right to vote, women would not have the right to vote, and we would still be living in an even more unjust world. This is why we have the courts - to operate as a check to tyranny.


Untill it begins to act as an oligarchy, dictating to the citizens the laws they will live under. We fought a revolution to escape that kind of tyranny, it's best not to go back and have to fight that fight over again.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:25 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 396
So exactly how are they gays in NJ being treated unfairly.
Quote:
New Jersey offers civil unions that grant the legal rights of marriage to gay couples


This fight is nothing more than a matter of semantics.

Except in the long run they'll probably be better off, as the new health care overhaul plans specifically penalize marriage.

_________________
History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 105 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 395 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group