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(05-03-2018, 03:51 PM)bfine32 Wrote: But to answer the question: Yes, I would support the citizen's rights to practice such laws although I would personally be against such measures. I don't pretend that my desires outweigh those of society.
Too bad you live in a country that refuses to allow the majority to oppress minorities.
Maybe you need to find a "society" that allows the majority to oppress the minorities. I am sure you would be much happier there.........as long as you were part of the majority.
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(05-03-2018, 11:16 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You've already stated you would. I pointed out that opposition to an unjust law is justifiable in the mass shootings thread. Your response;
You're not allowed to decide if a law is unjust in Fredtoast's world, hence you would support Jim Crowe. Odd, I asked you directly about that in my reply and yet you never responded. The mind bottles as to why.
Actually I said that I would fight against those laws any way I could. Through court battles or elections.
I would never just claim that I could follow whatever law I wanted. If I did chose not to follow a law I felt was unjust I would admit that I was a criminal for doing it. That is the problem I had with your position. You claimed that you could decide which laws to follow and that would not make you a criminal.
I never said you could not decide if a law was unjust. I just said that you have to challenge the law through legal means instead of just saying "I am not a criminal if I don't follow the laws I don't like."
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(05-04-2018, 11:24 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Fred, did you not say earlier that unjust laws don't exist as the legislature elected by the people draft such laws and the elected POTUS signs them? I mean, you did literally tell me this, as I reminded you earlier in this thread.
No. I never said anything like that. I said that unjust laws have to be challenged through legal means instead of just letting every individual decide which laws he wants to follow.
If I was alive in the South during the Jim Crow era I would do what I could to change the law, but I would never claim that I could just pick and chose whatever law I wanted to follow.
I am 100% opposed to complete anarchy.