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 | | From: | Rooney | | Subject: | Re: Hunting is banned! | | Date: | Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:45:11 +0000 |
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 | On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:44:26 GMT, Bill Zenith
wrote:
>Rooney wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:40:11 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell
>> wrote:
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>>>In article <41a52244$0$43606$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
>>> Old Codger wrote:
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>>>>Rooney wrote:
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>>>>>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:09:15 +0000, Oz
>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>Rooney writes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:25:08 +0000, Oz
>>>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>One function of a working democracy is to allow freedom for
>>>>>>>>minorities within it, where what they do does not affect others.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>That's nothing to do with the definition of democracy. It's just
>>>>>>>majority rule - no more, no less.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I didn't say definition, I said 'one function of a working'.
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>>>>>
>>>>>The function of a working democracy is to enact majority rule - no
>>>>>more, no less.
>>>
>>>>So we haven't got a working democracy. Young Tone did not get a majority
>>>>vote, just a majority of the parliamentary seats.
>>>
>>>I think you're (deliberately?) misunderstanding the meaning of 'majority
>>>vote'. The last time the majority vote didn't produce the next government
>>>was in 1951.
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>> I think Old Codger means that there was no referendum. That's by the
>> by. There was an enormous majority in the commons - and that's the
>> system we've got. Some people are happy enough to praise our system
>> until they get a result they don't like.
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>I suspect that describes you rather well. Your smug
>support for crude majoritarian rule seems entirely
>predicated on it having furnished you with a result you
>do like.
I've not given you any indication of my position - don't make
unwarranted assumtions.
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