(July 1, 2015 at 6:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No. States do not get to determine what people's rights may be.
Give the southern shits that power and blacks would be enslaved again.
I am not saying that his opinion is correct. I am saying that one can form a consistent opinion in voting as he has.
I think the idea of "states' rights" being somehow special is idiotic. It is a government telling people what to do. Why would it be that a government that has jurisdiction over a smaller territory is supposedly inherently better than a government with a larger jurisdiction? If that were universally true, then it would be better to have all of our rules made by tiny towns rather than trusting states, since the territory is smaller still.
As things are, having laws different from one state to the next causes troubles. People cross state lines and are not aware of all of the differences in the law, and so they accidentally violate the law because of this.
Also, in practice, I think the federal government is usually better about laws than most states. So I think we would be better off if individual states had less power and if we had more uniform laws in this country.
So I think his opinion is silly. But it need not be inconsistent as far as what Nope posted is concerned.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
