Dubin, Elisabeth wrote:
You guys, this logic makes no sense to me. Sorry Ray, but I want to
break this down:
Let's say I am a person who really believes that there should be a
gigantic public bathhouse in Clark Park for all to use. Let's say that
I'm really passionate about it, and I believe it's for the public good,
and most people will use it, and we can have masseuses in there on the
public payroll, and servants with grapes and weird lighting and it will
be great fun.
Don't I have the right to self-select myself to campaign for this? And
if I get a group of like-minded people together to enact change, don't
we have the right as a group to work towards out goals? We aren't
elected officials, so we are not obligated to reflect the views of
anyone but ourselves. Of course we will fail in our efforts, because a
great big sweaty bathhouse in Clark Park would likely not be in the
public interest and would be grody.
But we have the right to try to sway people to our cause because we are
a group of individuals bound by a common vision of loveliness. We are
not elected. (FOCP is not elected, it's a non-governmental group and
therefore has the right to do whatever the hell its members vote on.)
You would of course have the right and social obligation to form a
counter-group, called something like "Neighbors Against Sweaty
McBathhouseification" or something.
hahaha elisabeth I love this! :-)
will probably respond more later, gotta rush--
.........
laserbeam�
[aka ray]
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