RE: Abortion is morally wrong
July 1, 2014 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2014 at 5:23 pm by Dystopia.)
(July 1, 2014 at 5:16 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Please explain how protecting a minority's civil and individual rights can be construed as "tyranny".
It is not, but if the minority dictates the rights as they see fit while harming the majority's rights it should not be allowed. I'm just saying neither should the majority dictate public life, but minorities shouldn't have privileges or dictate the majority's rights/benefits
(July 1, 2014 at 5:10 pm)blackout94 Wrote: I really can't answer. But you made a good point, gay rights shouldn't be on referendum, I was just giving an example. If I vote for a conservative party let's say, I'm already voting intrinsically against abortion, if I vote for a liberal one, I'm voting to support legalization, and I'm a man.
Yep, and in places where rights are subject to statutory law, that might fly. Here, where such rights are protected under the nation's Constitution, statutory law cannot override Constitutional law.
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Yes one of our professors told us the USA has a constitution per federation and the federal state has the main constitution, the later being supreme
(July 1, 2014 at 5:17 pm)Losty Wrote:blackout Wrote:2 - By allowing this we would have to apply it by analogy to other situations, only gays would vote for gay rights, minorities for minorities rights, workers for workers rights. This is wrong because both parts have a saying in the matter. By only allowing women to vote they'd vote what benefits them more (same goes for other categories), this doesn't mean it would benefit society as a whole more. Imagine this - Low paid workers vote for minimum wage, they chose an extremely high wage because it benefits more and since employers can't vote they can't say NO to i (and a NO would be the right call from an economical perspective)
Wtf? No one should be voting on rights. They're called rights for a reason.
Tell that to our government, abortion was brought on referendum, and gay adoption WAS about to be brought too but the constitutional court decided it was against the constitution to ask the people if a certain class should have fundamental rights.
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