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Thread #92618   Message #1779012
Posted By: CarolC
08-Jul-06 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
Subject: RE: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
You did distort it. You tried to make it look like not allowing an underage child to vote (for instance) is not giving that child the same right as an adult. This is not the case. The adult wasn't allowed to vote as a child, either, and so has exactly the same rights as the child.

And you tried to make it look like a homeowner who is disturbed at 3 am would have different rights than the criminal who disturbs him or her, but the homeowner would also suffer the same consequences if he or she disturbed another homeowner at 3 am, and would therefore have exactly the same rights.

Unless in your world, some people are allowed to vote at different ages than others, and some homeowners are allowed to disturb other people at 3 am and others are not. And if that is the case, then I concede your point, but I also wonder what sort of weirdly discriminatory society you live in.