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[SamBones]

This saddens and sickens me that our "leaders" think this way.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...iot-climate-change-add-to-global-instability/

 

[holdmusic34]

Like the bible? Or the Koran? That's absurd. Glad the constitution, bible or koran is not interpereted literally in my neck of the woods. Might be something i'd have to get off the couch and go kick some ass about.

Here's a video of the US amendments process.
Amendment to be.

How's your car?

 

[SamBones]

What an absurd comparison.

 

[holdmusic34]

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus: age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can--and must--be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly--and no doubt will keep on trying.

The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty.” Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute--get out of there fast. You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

Robert Heinlein. (an American)

Now experiencing escalation fatigue.

 

[johnherman]

The Constitution was built with a legitimate means to change it. They are called Amendments. Courts exist to determine what the Constitution means if there is no specific law or regulation for a particular matter. But lawmakers, who are supposed to represent their constituents, have the ability to change the law and even the Constitution by Amendment (subject to ratification by the states).

Like the bible? Or the Koran? That's absurd.

The Bible and Koran do not have Amendment capabilities. In fact, interpretation of the Koran can lead to fatwa (aka Salmon Rushdie).

"There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything."
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Ironically, the Catholic Church, which formerly used excommunication as a punishment for faulty or mis-interpretation of the Bible, now concedes compromise on modern interpretations of The Bible.

But there are no Amendments.

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[SamBones]

holdmusic34, I believe you're actually quoting the fictional character Lazarus Long in the book Time Enough For Love (1973) by Heinlein. Yes, Heinlein wrote those words, but they are the "thoughts" of a fictional character in the context of a fictional book. Due to that fact, attributing them directly to Heinlein is a little suspect.

 

[holdmusic34]

He hid his agendas under fiction. He realised no one was interested in reading a diatribe.

Now experiencing escalation fatigue.

 

[strongm]

So, you accept Heinein was simply forwarding his own agenda. In which case the quote loses quite a lot of it's appeal; it is simply an opinion. You are making the classic mistake of appealing to higher authority. Heinlen, just because he is a writer, has no more expertise here than any of the rest of us.