Tom Reese wrote:
Just about everything excludes somebody, right? This isn't about
inclusion
or exclusion. It's about recognizing that I can't always have it my way
ALL
the time and you can't always have it your way ALL the time.
Government should not exclude anyone.
It has to. There are people in this country that don't believe there
should BE a government. Do you suggest the majority (who see its
usefulness) do without a government in order to accommodate their point
of view?
Then there is the fact that you can't get a hundred percent of the
people in the nation to agree on any given issue. Well, if government is
to function at all, someone's agenda will have to be followed and
someone else's agenda excluded.
So, is it better to offend the majority of the people or a tiny
minority? Either way, somebody will be excluded. The tiny minority needs
to be protected against being actually harmed by members of the majority
-- that's the civilized outlook -- but it's just not possible to *never*
offend anybody.
