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To: Ronaldus Magnus
You would be well advised to familiarize yourself with Plato's "The Republic" before casting insults like "extremely idiotic and stupid". Until then you describe no one but yourself.

I've read the Republic. Excuse me, please point out where I lobbied for pure democracy?

Your post is the biggest non-sequitur that I've ever read.

As our founders knew all too well, democracy can only succeed when voters put their own limited self-interests behind those of future generations.

That's why they gave us a Constitutional Republic. I will not live under a Catholic monarchy, no matter how much you try to lobby for it.

102 posted on 03/21/2009 2:47:50 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
I've read the Republic. Excuse me, please point out where I lobbied for pure democracy?

I never claimed that you lobbied for a pure democracy (nice try at sneaking in a fallacious straw-man argument, though). While not contesting the truth of your dubious claim of having read Plato despite all of the ill-informed comments you have made here on this thread, you did claim in post #12 that anyone who advocated for a monarchical form of government was "extremely idiotic and stupid" in obvious comparison to our democratic form of government.

Your post is the biggest non-sequitur that I've ever read.

If that is true then you clearly have no understanding of Plato or even basic logic. On which comparative form of government were you boldly basing your low assessment of the intelligence of those who advocated monarchical governance?

That's why they gave us a Constitutional Republic.

Which, of course, they themselves wrote of as a type of democracy.

I will not live under a Catholic monarchy, no matter how much you try to lobby for it.

That's the second fallacious straw-man argument you have attempted in your short and poorly formed post. I've lobbied for no such thing. I have merely pointed out how utterly foolish you were to have attempted to make a blind assessment of the intelligence of those who do. Unfortunately, your rebuttal post has done nothing other than to further demonstrate that your insults of "extremely idiotic and stupid" apply to no one better than to yourself.

106 posted on 03/21/2009 10:10:24 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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