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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> > The law should be the same for everybody.
> Sure. Let's make it the law that you can't criticize islam, and the penalty
> is death. Fair, right? Very democratic. The law is the same for everyone,
> muslims and christians and atheists alike.
No, because because of several reasons:
- It obviously is against basic human and constitutional rights.
- It's contradictory with freedom of speech.
- It puts one religion in a special position over all others.
"The law should be the same for everybody" does not equal "any arbitrary
law is ok, as long as it's applied equally to everybody". That's a rather
cheap argument.
A law must follow basic human rights, constitutional principles *and*
be applied to everybody equally.
> Again, the point I'm trying to make is that a minority with less power needs
> more ability to defend itself than a majority with a great amount of power
> needs to defend itself against a small minority.
I disagree. A minority needs the *same* ability to defend itself as the
majority. Different rules and double standards are discrimination.
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- Warp
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