[clue-talk] The War On...?

[Angelo Bertolli]

>It's pretty clear that the laws that forbade blacks to have an equal
>share in society were unjust laws and worthy of disobedience. Any
>rational person except for certain Southerners and Afrikaaners can see
>that.
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It is only clear to us today.  This was not so clear to people in the 
17th and 18th centuries.  Just as I am predicting that the abortion 
issue will become "clear" to everyone one day.

>The problem comes in when you extend that concept to "anything the
>person who is disobeying the law finds objectionable." I'm not really
>exaggerating much. Where does the rule of law stop and anarchy take
>over? Who is going to decide what is an unjust law?
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Well, this gets really philosophical really fast.  First, are you 
someone who believes there is an absolute right, or is what is right 
only relative to what people think is right?  If the former, then it's 
possible to have 1 single person in the world as right, and everyone 
else wrong.

But this country was based on the belief in the goodness of it's 
people.  The founding fathers believed that if given a chance, the 
people would create just laws.  I think this happens over time.  I think 
if an appeal is made to reason, and we were able to get everyone's 
decision on the morality of copyrights, I think the people would agree 
to change a few things despite the brainwashing we're given.

"There can be no justice so long as laws are *absolute*." -- *Picard, ST 
TNG*