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Reply #45 - May 10th, 2011 at 6:00am
 
Dnarever wrote on May 8th, 2011 at 9:28pm:
Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 7th, 2011 at 1:10pm:
How is it democratic to force people to the poll through threats of fining them?

You do realize how perplexing and surprising that is to my American colleagues and British family that Australia does this?



Great examples they are where we recently had a British election won by 21% of the vote and a US election won by 5 votes to 3 in the high court.

Yeah why don't we copy them guys they have it mastered. DOH!



Actually it is not just the USA and the UK that believes in the right to vote, europe, most of asia and pretty much every democratic country in the world.

To find countries that vote like Australia you would have to go to countries like zimbabwe  and most totalitarian regimes.

But you keep telling yourself we and the dictators are right and the rest of the first world democracies are wrong.  Angry

Human rights are not priveledges to be manipulated by self serving politicians to meet their own needs.

In a democracy it is the absolute right of every person entitled to vote to do so, or not.

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Re: democratic rights
Reply #46 - May 10th, 2011 at 7:15pm
 
Soren wrote on May 9th, 2011 at 9:48pm:
freediver wrote on May 9th, 2011 at 9:39pm:
In fact you have a better guarantee of property rights if you are in the Robison Crusoe situation.





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Yeah, and you have unlimited rights to drink as much seawater as you like when you are lost at sea and there is nobody around for 500 miles take even one cup of it away from you. You have unlimited property rights to seawater.

Enjoy it.


So Soren fails yet again to explain what 'democratic rights' are.

Or do you think that living in a democracy is going to help you when you are lost at sea? Maybe you can vote your way home?




Property rights can be and are infringed under all forms of government. There is nothing special about property rights under a democracy that makes them qualitatively different from those under any other system of government. In fact you have a better guarantee of property rights if you are in the Robison Crusoe situation.

If not, can you explain how property rights are different in a democracy, beyond the fact that they are in a democracy?
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Reply #47 - May 13th, 2011 at 10:32am
 
You haven't submitted your homework, FD. No wonder you don't understand.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1304415407/13#13
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Re: democratic rights
Reply #48 - Dec 29th, 2011 at 4:50pm
 
It is a common, flawed assumption that it is intolerant not to tolerate other, alien, cultures on the British Isles (or Australia). There is a missing part to this, of what would otherwise be, erroneous equation.

The other part can be posed in a question: How can it be tolerant of immigrants and other non-indigenous cultures not to give up their own cultures and assimilate once on the territory of the British Isles?


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2076544/Why-Burka-ban-defends-rights-women.html#ixzz1hu5fatfe


In other words, wearing the Islamic burqa in Britain and Australia is flaunting of your intolerance of British or Autralian culture - that is, flaunting your intolerance of your hosts' culture.

Do we need to tolerate the diversity of intolerances? No. They do not deserve it.





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