Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:50:52 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Ketanji Jackson Worried That the 1st Amendment is Hamstringing Government Censorship References: <17bede76861e0687$3579$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> <17bf6e37e6780b72$41800$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:58:27 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-4VDmMqSZucYslIy9L1rFppvWv9VM5MfacMrmOy8i2UkuXkbCzmxFNRbDqqTRbg+qdGJ3F3BtQYppmuN!LSM2NFVXBHIVvhFwqQRr4Y7iLEXPGh0DPOXuZGqwWBulkO73b/eU4dg5xIhl67sZmFhN1pssXvu8!XWM= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2470 In article <17bf6e37e6780b72$41800$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com>, 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. So explain how , for example, Amendment XIII might be acceptably regulated beyond it's plain text.