orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) (01/08/86)
> In article <3630040@csd2.UUCP> sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora) writes: > > >/* jim@ISM780B.UUCP / 3:32 pm Jan 2, 1986 */ > > >and disgusting to justify those policies based on the mere fact that Reagan > > >was elected, as though that gave him a mandate of any sort, rather than > > >indicating that people were confused, misled, beguiled, apathetic, and > > >unenamored by Mondale. > > > > Apparently, Jim holds the American people in high esteem. > > Can you say SORE LOSER?? At one time it was the common majority opinion that the Earth was flat: because everyone believed it did this make this viewpoint right? Later most people refused to believe Copernicus when he said that the Earth *moved*. Did that make those people right? In the moral sphere we find the same thing: at one time everybody accepted the aristocracy's argument that some people were just inherently better than others and thus fit to rule by heredity. Because people accepted this was it *right*? At one time the majority of people accepted slavery: did that make it *right*? I believe that Reagan's policies in support of War, in support of the arms race, against Civil Rights, against population control efforts, against pollution control efforts, against civil liberties and the protections of the Bill of Rights are morally indefensible. These policies are simply *wrong* no matter how many people continue to condone them just as slavery was wrong despite being generally accepted. The same thing goes for countries like the Soviet Union where the majority of citizens simply accept the denial of basic human rights of free speech and political activity as important to social order. Unfortunately many Soviet citizens still see Stalinism as acceptable - I think they are wrong because even if Stalinism did promote higher economic production it was at the expense of people's human rights and their lives. Majority opinion may indicate either what people want or what they find acceptable. It does not indicate whether what people want is *right*. So please stop arguing as if it does. tim sevener whuxn!orb