First of all, I am not breaking any laws. I am not the one who is doing this. This was someone else's posting that I copied here. I just happen to agree that if the person is doing it in response to others who are doing the same against metric, then I am not going to be the one to tell that person he is wrong.
You still haven't explained how, just because person A breaks the law, person B is justified in doing so. Do you believe it?
Of course those defacing metric signs are also wrong, but that does NOT justify lawbreaking by metricationists.
> (3) For such mundane things as signs, most people believe democracy is the > appropriate way of making decisions. Are the signs there in contravention > to democratically-chosen alternatives?
Are the ones that have been installed in metric and have been defaced any different? Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Democratic means don't always work. We have tried the democratic way for a long time and it failed. It is time for new techniques. Personally I would rather see the collapse of the dollar wipe out the American economy, then have it rebuilt along metric lines.
Again you spout garbage here. Who are YOU to determine "it is time for new techniques," just because others don't agree with you? Who are YOU to say the "democratic way" has failed, just because you didn't get your way?
And you make me laugh with your comment about the American economy!! America's economy is wiping the floor with Europe's, and will continue to do so as long as Europe remains so socialistic. The "collapse" of the dollar just makes it that much harder to keep American non-metric products out of Europe, so that hardly helps metrication.
>You might want to take note that the BWMA supports the actions of > >ARM. The only way to fight ARM is with ARI. > > Bovine scat. Analogously, if someone murders your mother, you are > justified in murdering that person? What b.s.!
Yep! That is exactly what the state does. I don't have to do it myself, I'll let the state do the dirty work. I'll let others do the dirty work of destroying imperial signs and just silently approve.
You are a picture of integrity, Euric!!
> I stand by my previous post -- I don't know about where you live Euric, but > I guarantee you that if pro-metricationists start vandalizing colloquial > signage in the USA, it will generate GREATER resistance to metrication.
And what will destruction of metric signs generate?
It will generate anger towards the anti-metricationists. Which could be good for us, although I would never support it for that reason.
Bovine scat to you on this nonsense. There is no greater resistence then what exists now in the US. It won't get any worse. But like I said, I'm going to put my hope in the collapse of the dollar and hope that is motivation enough to force the US into metrication. If that does not work, nothing will. At least then a weakened US won't be in a position to imperialise the rest of the world. That will be one victory.
You have no idea of how America works, Euric. Everything you post treats America like one big homogenous country. You simply do not understand that America is 280 million different people, 15 to 20 million different businesses, about 12,000 different legal jurisdictions, and NO ONE HAS AUTHORITY OVER ALL OF IT!!!
No, not even the President or Congress has absolute authority over this country. They are restrained (thank God) by the constitution, by the courts, and by the electorate, which will occasionally kick them out when they do something people don't like.
Sure, go ahead and get mad at an American company that does not metricate, or at the Federal government for not metricating within its domain, but to refer to the US failing to metricate reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how America works.
Even more foolish is your taking it so personally, Euric. American companies do not metricate because they do not see it as in their interest do to so, NOT because they are thumbing their nose at anyone or any country.
So, if you want to metricate American businesses (or any government jurisdiction), show them how it is to their benefit to metricate. And stop promoting such foolishness as destruction of public property.
Jim Elwell
