Yes and even then the "rights" of the minority are often trampled on because as noble as we, or our society views itself, when there's a crisis, or when the majority view becomes so overwhelming, or when those in power become so blind to the needs of the lesser, rights are essentially foregone.
Our laws are only words written on paper. Tom On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The rights of the majority are usually well looked after. It's the rights of >> minorities that usually get stomped and which we need to watch out for. > > My post to which you're responding was, of course, tongue-in-cheek. > > I have to say, though, that the concept of "group rights" is a bit > scary; there's always another group who ends up on the short end of > the stick. > > I'm not engaging in hyperbole when stating that Hitler used what he > described as the group rights of the majority to exterminate Jews. > > I like individual rights. Everyone has them, without exception. They > are the great legacy of the Magna Carta, running through English > jurisprudence, adopted by the Americans in their Declaration of > Independence and Constitution, and form the cornerstone of all those > countries who adopted Common Law. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
