aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[kaffy_r]

Urge. To. Kill.
Reason #1,436,085 I am glad I do not have a gun or frequent flier miles. It's also reason #9,572,009 I am ... diffident ... about religiously-based gender roles. The laff riot really gets rolling around paras 7 and 8.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

All I'm saying his that if you speak or think the word "democracy" with some sort of magical Humpty-Dumpty-esque pile of attached meanings you'll get blindsided when something like this happens. Democracy strictly means majority vote rules. Period. Any other meaning you assign is mythology.

That said: If you take anything I wrote as in any way approving of what the Afghani law is, I suggest you take a break and examine your presuppositions.

[kaffy_r]

I think the idea of believing that the strictly technical denotation of democracy is all democracy is, is to make the world a little more dim for yourself.

"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
"Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of."
(C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawntreader)

[(Anonymous)]

And I think not keeping precision when thinking about government is just like handing whiskey and car keys to teenagers. --MMB