Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Ketanji Jackson Worried That the 1st Amendment is Hamstringing Government Censorship Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:40:31 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <17bede76861e0687$3579$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> <17bf6e37e6780b72$41800$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:40:33 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="54e6098056b1e9db8213ada7a5b01c77"; logging-data="3915160"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/jdsMclgLn/IX7G3fBaGL4" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kKkyvCEuoU6LOw77/+nAiXZ+HPg= In-Reply-To: <17bf6e37e6780b72$41800$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3184 On 3/23/24 11:26 AM, moviePig wrote: > On 3/23/2024 3:16 AM, The Horny Goat wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:26:58 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> On Mar 22, 2024 at 4:08:21 AM PDT, "FPP" wrote: >>> >>> No, I don't. Every time you bring that up, I ask you whether you >>> think that >>> it'd be okay for the government to make exceptions to Amendment XIX and >>> prohibit women from voting since "no amendment is sacrosanct", after >>> all. Or >>> since "no amendment is sacrosanct", it'd be okay for the government to >>> prohibit black people from voting (Amendment XV) and allow people to >>> be owned >>> as slaves (Amendment XIII). >>> >>> And that's when *you* go into a coma. >>> >> In other words the "reductio ad absurdem" argument where one defeats >> an argument by showing where the logical extension from it leads to an >> absurdity. > > "SOME amendments are sacrosanct", a theologism, is what's absurd here. Noted lefty lib'rul Antonin Scalia on the 2nd Amendment and rights. > “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment right is not unlimited…. [It is] not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” He said "Like most rights"... That was in the good old days when you couldn't buy a Justice. I don't see this illegitimate court having any bounds. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0