Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]

* Joe said on 2003-07-05 19:21:21 +0200
> * Andreas said previously:
> > More relevantly, going by how the word have actually been applied in the
> > last quarter millennium or so, excluding women from the electorate does not
> > prevent a state from being democratic, excluding the lower classes does.
>
> I would say that excluding anyone of sound mind who is over the age of
> suffrage, male, female, poor, rich, black or white, makes a state
> undemocratic.  Which means that the UK did not become truly democratic until
> the 20s, nor did the USA, entirely.
<Bill Hicks-voice>
Considering that felons in the US doesn't have the vote (at least in
Florida), I don't think we can call it a democratic country *today*.
</Bill Hicks-voice>
(Not to mention: less than 70% turnout? Hvæt?! Having to *register*
to be allowed to vote, hvæt?)

To conclude, some gems found in my quotes-files:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759


People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell
them Benjamin Franklin said it first.


Democracy is that form of government where
everybody gets what the majority deserves.


End of thread, ok?


t., depressed by Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men", doing the rounds here now

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