Posted by alexandra_k on February 12, 2022, at 14:13:46
In reply to minister of finance says..., posted by alexandra_k on February 12, 2022, at 14:08:09
(because being speaker of the house means that he is the majority in parliament. he speaks for the majority of parliament. he is parliament).
he says that parliament isn't listening to the protestors because they are a 'minority who think they are a majority'.
becuase he thinks that the way it works is that he (one man) is the majority in parliament and because he is the majority in parliament he dictates the majority and then that wins becuase mob rule.
but he is so much bigger than the number of protestors.
particularly when you factor in all the police officers that are on his pay-roll to inforce his majority of himself.
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they don't understand that it would be wrong to sacrifice a lonesome stranger. they think that since utilitarianism is correct (or since they are one individual who dictate what the majority is to believe or say if they are to be counted at all) and utilitarianism says that that's what happens to people who stick their neck out.
they don't understand the case as a reductio.
but their own view is internally incoherent since they won't count anybody who doesn't agree with / support / endorse the view of the...
lone speaker of parliament.
quack quack mallard.
duck.
how do to stop dogs pissing on your lawn?
that's the attitude.
it's time to go.
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