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To: Timeout

Laws are made to protect Society from individuals. They got it half A backwards on this one.


2 posted on 08/27/2007 2:46:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: Sacajaweau
Laws are made to protect Society from individuals.

I am flabbergasted that somebody on a conservative forum would write a statement like this.

This is exactly what liberals, communists, and statists say when they start talking about gun control or other convenient social restrictions. Saying that the basis of Law is to protect society from 'individuals' is nothing less than spitting on the Constitution. The United States is powerful because the Law was designed to protect individuals from society and the state. Not the other way around. Are you arguing that we would be better off if everyone fit into their assigned social boxes?

5 posted on 08/27/2007 3:12:33 AM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: Sacajaweau

And how many of us would NOT be diagnosed with a “disorder” of some sort or another in today’s world? There is a disorder for every conceivable problem - all by today’s medical and psychological excuse-giving world....

It is kind of like crying wolf - eventually, folks just tune it out. Disorder-this, and disorder-that.


10 posted on 08/27/2007 4:20:39 AM PDT by TheBattman (I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
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To: Sacajaweau
Laws are made to protect Society from individuals.

I disagree. I think laws are made to protect INDIVIDUALS from individuals, among other things.

13 posted on 08/27/2007 4:49:09 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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