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Topic History of: Moron Morality.
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zooloo |
JC wrote:
Are you suggesting that the vote should only be given to people depending on their beliefs?
Or are you suggesting that the proportion of people who believe in planets having an effect on personality is large enough to decide which way an election swings?
To the first question, no... but only for the want of a reliable test.
Regarding people who insist on the Truth of horoscopes, that is an indicator of an inability to reason. To such a degree if the individual were capable of being aware they would be ashamed of themselves. |
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veritas |
You are correct in that there is a certain number of the population with a moran mentality and a former Aussie media baron ( now American) has made a fortune out of them.
I 've just finished reading Geoffrey Robertson QC's book about a lot of famous cases he worked on and in the days during dury challenges ( which has now changed) he always watched to see what newspaper a prospective jury member had under their arm, and sure enough, if they had that tabloid, he objected as he knew they always went into the jury room and said 'the blighter's guilty now let's get out of here and go home".
The disturbing thing is that government's are now actually taking notice of this small percentage of the nation who are not representative of the whole country and are continually bulied by a few newspapers who at most have readerships combined of-what-under 10 million at the most. Yet they make laws that seem to confirm to the Moran Morality !! |
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mikemacca |
Society's obsession with punishment clouds the reality of what prisons are supposed to do. These institutions are full of people from all walks of society and for a number of reasons. Yet only one system is used to supposedly rehabilitate every individual.
Is 22 year old mother-of-three, Candice, who hasn't paid her council tax, really on a par with 20 year old Jason who kicked and stamped on somebody for looking a bit different ?
Locking somebody up for a crime based on supposition and the chance of who the jury believes is foolhardy (and usually linked directly to how much emotional sympathy can be gathered)
"We haven't cured you but you've done your time" |
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JC |
zooloo wrote:
Considering people who believe nonsense like distant planets having an effect on their personality are given the vote it's no wonder we have the government and media we do.
Are you suggesting that the vote should only be given to people depending on their beliefs?
Or are you suggesting that the proportion of people who believe in planets having an effect on personality is large enough to decide which way an election swings? |
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In The Know |
JC wrote:
As for sausage and bacon. I love them both and shall continue to eat them heartily - as did generations of healthy, long living, people before me.
My granny had a diet which would make most nutritionalists have a heart attack !
Favourites included dripping sandwiches (sprinkled with salt), and pigs trotters, but her absolute fave was tripe ! |
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