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Old 04-09-2008, 05:42 PM
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That's not the only problem with the idea. The phrase " All men are created equal..." kinda pops into my mind here. It means that everyone, male and female, white or black or hispanic or asian..., intelligent or completely moronic, all get to have the same rights here. That includes voting.
True. And that is part of an amendment.

"an alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc. a change made by correction, addition, or deletion"

Just because it was written a long time ago doesn't make it necessarily relevant.

Quite the opposite, it was an idealistic opinion written in time spectacularly different from now. (now the world can end at the push of a button)

And that very statement contradicts itself. "Everybody is equal male and female, white or black or Hispanic or Asian..., intelligent or completely moronic"

That's not true in any other aspect of life is it? why should it be relevant in probably the most important?

We all will say "everybody is different" yet in the same breath say "we should treat everybody equally".
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I'm an independent for one thing not a liberal. Just because I think Bush is an incompetent leader doesn't make me liberal, doesn't even exclude me from being republican, I choose to weigh up his actions and determine my own opinion, over blind party loyalty.

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