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Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: jbox on March 30, 2005, 09:06:11 pm ---Except there is a process for a speed limit to be changed even if the person currently administering the process doesn't agree with you. To equate religious institutions with government processes seems like agreeing with Cooter's point (rational malleability).
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Then I agree.
Even the Catholic Church has changed its views on its laws. Once they had to fast of Fridays during Lent, enough people disagreed with that law, so it was limited to no meat. The fish industry bribed the pope so it was changed to allow fish.
That seems like governmental processes to me.
Remember Jesus was a Jew.
--- Quote from: DrewKaree ---Next you'll be telling us you think we need to enact more gun control laws!
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I think we need to enact more laws which allow me to control more guns.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on March 31, 2005, 11:58:47 am ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree ---Next you'll be telling us you think we need to enact more gun control laws!
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I think we need to enact more laws which allow me to control more guns.
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I agree with that point, however, "allowing me to control more guns" is something I prefer to call "aiming" or "sighting in", and I wonder if we need a law to do those things.
Well, at least with a law to do those things, if the laws weren't being followed, we'd be throwing all the people who break that law in jail, right? ::)
Crazy Cooter:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on March 31, 2005, 11:58:47 am ---The fish industry bribed the pope so it was changed to allow fish.
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LOL.
It boils down to this:
1- "Mans law".
2- "God's law" (whomever you believe in).
3- "Individual law".
I say ditch the first two and live by the third. The first is based in suppression, the second is based in conformity. Each can be viewed as an "entity" that only bends for self preservation. For example, the lent thing. Nobody wanted it, so in order for it to survive the Pope said fish was cool. The "nail" bends in order to entice more rubber bads around it.
ChadTower:
Forget that. I live by Ohm's Law.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 31, 2005, 01:09:16 pm ---The "nail" bends in order to entice more rubber bads around it.
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The nail isn't a church, or a government.