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Igel

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19. Ultimately, in this democracy, it's up to the parents(') free choice.

Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:03 PM

Aug 1

Our Democracy is based on a constitution. It's defined and delineated by a constitution.

But one of the constitution's--the charter of Our Democracy--goals is liberty. There was weird outrage a few years ago at the utterly true claim that "democracy" was no in the constitution. Outrage at truth ... Dunno know. But the Constitution does set up a kind of democracy. A "kind."

"Thou must" is not liberty. It can be religion based. It can be religion based (but I repeat myself). It can be science-based. Yet what's the charter of Our Democracy? Mandates are orders, compulsions, coercions. Hardly liberty, albeit a majority can be coercive and oppressive.

My (now former) church was anti-vaccine. Yet it was "democratic" in that if parents had their kids vaccinated--like mine--nobody cared. And, you know, nothing bad resulted from it. In the locally grand order of things, that was unimportant. Wife-beating, married men at strip clubs on shabbat, a bit more important. But participation was optional.

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