> May I ask where you received your education pertaining to the Constitution?
From a constitutional law course taught by a professor with a JD from Harvard.
Again, rights of a minority are individual rights. But it's disingeneous to say that the constitution PROTECTS individual rights in general. It does not. It protects a small subset of individual rights that are most relevant when someone is in a political/racial/religious minority. Calling these rights minority rights is more accurate than calling them indvidual rights. In addition to minority rights, the consitutiton also provides a mechanism for ensuring other individual rights -- both de facto and de jure -- are protected.
Most of the founding fathers considered freedom from unreasonable taxation a plausible individual right. The Constitution doesn't provide explicit protections against that; instead, it provides self-governance.
Here is how I viewed this exchange:
OP: 5 is a positive number.
You: 5 is a number.
Me. That's stupid. It's more accurate to say it's a positive number, why are you correcting OP?
Yes.
> May I ask where you received your education pertaining to the Constitution?
From a constitutional law course taught by a professor with a JD from Harvard.
Again, rights of a minority are individual rights. But it's disingeneous to say that the constitution PROTECTS individual rights in general. It does not. It protects a small subset of individual rights that are most relevant when someone is in a political/racial/religious minority. Calling these rights minority rights is more accurate than calling them indvidual rights. In addition to minority rights, the consitutiton also provides a mechanism for ensuring other individual rights -- both de facto and de jure -- are protected.
Most of the founding fathers considered freedom from unreasonable taxation a plausible individual right. The Constitution doesn't provide explicit protections against that; instead, it provides self-governance.
Here is how I viewed this exchange:
OP: 5 is a positive number.
You: 5 is a number.
Me. That's stupid. It's more accurate to say it's a positive number, why are you correcting OP?
You: But positive numbers are numbers!
Me: Yeah duh I'm done here.