[CrackMonkey] Lindsey Graham

Emad El-Haraty elharaty at utdallas.edu
Wed Feb 23 13:37:29 PST 2000


Hmm. This reminds me of something hitler would say...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Mike Goldman (whig at debian.org):
> 
> > Seth David Schoen wrote:
> > 
> >> I think my present position is close to "Voting is wrong, but it does not
> >> in itself constitute consent".
> > 
> > Consent for the PROCESS, certainly.  Look, nobody is FORCING people to
> > vote.  So if you do it, you have willingly accepted the rules.
> 
> The word "so", in the above, seems to imply causation.  Yet, it's
> non-obvious how your conclusion follows from your premises.
> 
> You may have intended to express your ending sentence as a personal
> opinion, but it's framed in the form of a logical deduction.
> 
> > It's like, when someone offers you a deal, and you accept the
> > benefits, you acquire the obligation.
> 
> Supplementing that unsupported assertion with an analogy doesn't help
> much.
> 
> > You CAN complain, no matter what, but whether you have proper STANDING to
> > complain depends again on what you are complaining about.
> 
> "Standing" is an undefined term, in this context.  (It has a defined
> meaning in legal contexts.)
> 
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 Emad El-Haraty
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