1 2
#58506
Napoleon the Clown
So if a law were made banning people from praying you'd respect that law?
8/2/2006 2:06:17 AM
#58509
Jacob Syne
So laws are never unjust?
Btw, screw banks. Sadly, robbery doesn't solve a lot.
8/2/2006 2:10:38 AM
#58510
Star Cluster
No they wouldn't, NtC. Or else they wouldn't constantly complain about not being able to display the Ten Commandments on every public building in the US.
8/2/2006 2:11:34 AM
#58514
Papabear
Does he feel that way about a woman's legal right to an abortion?
8/2/2006 2:13:07 AM
#58515
Nostromo
Underground bank robbery is good. Lots of great heist movies have been made about undergroung bank robbery.
8/2/2006 2:13:18 AM
#58546
themann1086
This is almost not-fundy if it weren't for the context; democratic protest against laws deemed unjust [see: civil rights movement] are part of our nation's history. That can be and often is abused by those seeking to repeal just laws, but such is the price of democracy: constant debate.
8/2/2006 2:56:03 AM
#58556
Hadanelith
What Papabear said.
8/2/2006 4:13:24 AM
#58561
Crosis
<<< If society, in its democratic wisdom, doesn't legalize assisted suicide, that law should be respected and obeyed. >>>
An unjust law should not be obeyed just because it is the law.
<<< Or, do you believe in underground bank robbery, too? >>>
Bank robbery is a crime because it tramples the rights of others. Euthanasia does not. The analogy, as usual, fails.
8/2/2006 4:16:47 AM
#58593
Winston Jen
Peaceful protests HAVE NOT WORKED in Australia for over two decades.
I know this would probably come off as \"Fundie\", but...
If I become a quadraplegic, I'll consider biting Wesley's throat out. ;)
If I become terminally ill, I'll consider committing suicide by cop and taking out 1000 pro-lifers. After all, DEAD PEOPLE CANNOT VOTE.
8/2/2006 6:06:44 AM
#58594
Angel Kaida
Winston Jen? I love you.
8/2/2006 6:16:11 AM
#58595
Winston Jen
Thanks, Angel.
Also, a group of people with Motor Neurone Disease in Australia have decided to break the law by helping each other die. The ones who can still move their arms will help those who cannot.
Background info on one of the worst conditions in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MND
8/2/2006 6:26:38 AM
#58602
NotMe
To repeat my age old mantra:
You can do whatever you darn well please as long as you do not impede on the rights of others while doing so.
8/2/2006 6:39:21 AM
#58606
Winston Jen
Good point, NotMe, but if pro-lifers won't respect the rights of the terminally ill, why should the terminally ill respect the rights of the pro-lifers?
Turnabout is fair play. The Religious Right believes in the death penalty and \"an eye for an eye\", so they'd be hypocrites to oppose voluntary euthanasia.
8/2/2006 7:04:20 AM
#58616
Julian
Underground bank robbery hey? No we leave tax fraud for fuckwits like Mr Dino.
8/2/2006 7:33:15 AM
#58618
Winston Jen
Exactly, Julian. \"Underground bank robbery\" does not exist, because everyone nearby knows when a bank is robbed.
8/2/2006 7:35:19 AM
#58622
Napoleon the Clown
Originally posted by Winston Jen
The Religious Right believes in the death penalty and \"an eye for an eye\", so they'd be hypocrites to oppose voluntary euthanasia.
No, killing someone is only acceptable if they have done something \"wrong.\"
8/2/2006 7:47:02 AM
#58625
Winston Jen
Something wrong... like talking back to your parents?
Oh, yeah, that's a really good moral system (not).
8/2/2006 7:48:58 AM
#58708
McCulloch
It strikes me you don't give a darn about the rule of law, Sojourner Truth. You celebrate \"underground\" railway and people defying the law.
If society, in its democratic wisdom, legalizes slavery, that law should be respected and obeyed. When it is violated, it should be enforced.
8/2/2006 1:58:50 PM
#58719
Winston Jen
I'd just like to see Wesley come up with a response to this:
\"If you were in the WTC on 9/11, would you try and stop people jumping out of the windows? If so, why? If not, then aren't you admitting that suicide is rational under certain circumstances?\"
8/2/2006 2:10:15 PM
#58733
Dr. Major
You'll live or i'll kill you!
8/2/2006 2:27:00 PM
#58743
Winston Jen
If only they were that compassionate, Dr. Major!
Dr. Death is better than Dr. Pain!
8/2/2006 2:38:38 PM
#58758
TDR
wow, W.J. You don't give a \"darn\" aparently. That's some pretty strong language he's aiming at your head. I'd be shivering.
8/2/2006 3:12:14 PM
#58761
Winston Jen
Heh. Even if I did commit mercy-killing, the sentence would be a suspended one at worst.
8/2/2006 3:16:50 PM
#59061
Lord Zeruel
Well banks are government condoned institutions of usery so god knows I'd be grinning ear to ear to see them get what they so dearly deserve, but simple robbery is too uncreative for my taste.
8/3/2006 8:19:05 AM
#59445
tracer
Also, a group of people with Motor Neurone Disease in Australia have decided to break the law by helping each other die. The ones who can still move their arms will help those who cannot.
Background info on one of the worst conditions in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MND
Motor-Neuro Disorder is much sexier in America. Here, we call it \"Lou Gehrig's Disease\". (Or, sometimes, \"What that wheelchair black hole guy has\".)
8/3/2006 11:38:15 PM
1 2