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

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

Gee I dunno I guess I like to think Democracy like all things has evolved with the times especially that length of time. 400B.C. was quite a while back ago.
I'm sure "democracy's" meaning varies from place to place and yet demoting women to being the sex slaves of their husbands seems just a tab bit archaic even for me.

Maybe you do not place enough value on the label

And really in my mind this goes well beyond just democracy and is really more of a human rights issue.

[(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