Mississippi miss for conservatives - they lose another round

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SmarterThanYou said:
no it doesn't. that version of democracy is clear oppression. what if a supermajority decided that japanese citizens should be interred in prison camps? wait, that did happen.

it's totally moronic to decide that the minorities rights can be trampled upon if it is for the good of society.
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I think that representative democracy has proven to be a system that's highly resistant to tyranny. You don't generally see the sorts of stuff happening in pretty much any democracy that you do in other systems.

However, I don't see a reason why we shouldn't insert some basic inviolable rights into a constitution, just in case, establishing a legalocracy which checks the democracy. This is a powerful tool when you have a constitution and system for protecting that constitution that's highly respected, like we do in the US. In a lot of other countries, though, this hasn't proven as effective. It's not only what is written down, the tradition and society is important as well.

With regards to this specific amendment, it nearly passed, and it was only due to some amazing breaks for the anti-26 campaign (such as Barbour coming out against it) that it was able to be defeated. And this was an extreme amendment; even if you were to naively accept, at face value, the claims by the 26 campaign that it wouldn't do anything to harm doctors who performed abortions to save the life of the mother, it would've banned abortion in the case of rape. A less extreme amendment would've definitely passed. And I'm personally glad that the supreme court would soon step in, and the rights of women would once more be respected in the state of Mississippi.
 
One thing that struck me as odd about this whole debate is what the term "conception" means to different people. To some folks, when they say life begins at conception, what they mean is implantation. To others, though, conception means fertilization. I always assumed that people taking the "life begins at conception" view were of the opinion that life beings at fertilization. Apparently, that's not correct and this schism explains the results yesterday. Can anyone sort this all out for me?
 
Cornholio said:
One thing that struck me as odd about this whole debate is what the term "conception" means to different people. To some folks, when they say life begins at conception, what they mean is implantation. To others, though, conception means fertilization. I always assumed that people taking the "life begins at conception" view were of the opinion that life beings at fertilization. Apparently, that's not correct and this schism explains the results yesterday. Can anyone sort this all out for me?
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Life begins when Horny Herman sees an attractive female subordinate.
 
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