Posted: Jun 18, 2006, 5:57 PM CST
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Genuine freedom has always been an illusion, and always will be.
Within any civilization laws have always existed controlling what people may or may not do.
Fascism is only as bad as the people who are dictating the laws.
If "we the people" dictate the laws, they will still exist.
In fact, if the MAJORITY RULED, like it's supposed to be in a genuinely democracy then a lot of so-called freedoms that minorities now have would be revoked.
The majority hasn't ruled in America for a very long time.
I’m not convinced that this is necessarily a bad idea either.
A true democracy would be nothing other than a state where the majority were the dictators.
That still wouldn't spell freedom for the minorities.
Human societies will ALWAYS be trade-offs.
There's no such thing as a genuinely free society.
There never has been, and never will be.
I think that the issue of freedom lies on the definition of majority in what so called democracy! 51% is a mjority, is it?
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