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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
One word.
Legislature.
If people feel strongly enough about something, then approach your legislator and make your feelings known. If enough people who feel as strongly approach THEIR legislators and make their like feelings known, then in time legislative action may be taken with possibly a law passed that reflects those strong feelings. And, of course, if the governor of the state under discussion agrees, he or she will sign it into law. Otherwise, my condolences on their passionate, albeit fruitless, efforts.
It is the way things work in America. Of the people, by the people, and for the people. No minority, no matter how strongly they feel about something, gets to thwart the will of the majority.
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That discussion makes my point.
I'm thinking of two phrases, one is "tyranny of the majority" and the other gets a little to close to the line to mention in this post.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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