• Re: Property v. democracy

    From A. Filip@21:1/5 to Offline Surfer on Wed Feb 26 23:06:17 2025
    Offline Surfer <afds@sldj.sjld> wrote:
    Under democracy, private property is respected.

    Do not take private property without consent or fair compensation.

    Under modern democracies private property is *usually* *sufficiently* respected.

    Has USA abolished LEGAL private property of slaves
    *without compensation* AFAIK.

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janusz_Korwin-Mikke
    Democracy means that if this man, you, and I will be trapped on an
    island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to
    sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even
    put that in the constitution.
    source: speech during a meeting in the R. Barbosa High School

    --
    A. Filip
    | It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.
    | (Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5)

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