17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Mark wrote:
Jim Choate wrote:
Indeed. Yet in a democracy, any two other members are assumed to know better than me, and any 51% to know better than the other 49%.
Democracy is merely the scoundrel's last attempt to maintain the divine right of kings by coverting it into the divine right of the elected.
Which means we should have the lowest number of incarcerated individuals instead of the most.
Does it? Or does it mean that we potentially have 49% of the population in jail for any particular act, deemed to be a crime by the remaining 51%? Tim G.