(April 13, 2016 at 12:21 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 12:16 pm)Drich Wrote: Because we live in a country where the majority rules. those who got help number is the thousands maybe hundreds of thousands. verse the hundreds of millions their laws effect. Not to mention this law will allow those who have not received help the freedom to put it off even longer. And it opens the general populace to those looking to exploit the law and the oppsite sex.
For what?
How does society benefit here? or is just all about a political movement flexing it's power?
We do NOT live in a country where the majority rules. We live in a Constitutional Republic specifically because we wanted to avoid majority rule. (Read the Federalist Papers, some time, if you want to know why the founders did this... tl;dr version: they were aware that a majority could trample on the minority, and sought to protect the basic human rights of all American citizens.)
Society benefits here by not trampling on one of its minorities. It's really, really simple.
lol.. we stopped being a constitutional republic a long long time ago. we are chest deep in a full blown democracy.