"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank
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| Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Aug. 29 2007,22:14) | | (In the next hypothetical moment, having suffering catastrophic consequence of a poor choice, I buried her in the basement and moved on. Who is to say that was wrong?) |
Depends what one means by "wrong", I suppose.
Indeed, many people would say that you *did* make the "right" choice. The law, of course, would disagree. And since the law has guns backing up its particular opinion, that's the only one that counts in practice.
I believe it was Thoreau who said that democracy doesn't operate on the principle of "majority rule" because the majority is more likely to make better decisions, or because the majority is a better judge of morality or ethics, or because the majority is more likely to have the best interests of society as a whole at heart. The majority rules simply because it is physically stronger than the minority, and can force its views onto the minority if necessary, whether its views are right or wrong.
Much truth in that.
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