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> are you an American?

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.



Positive number is more specific and accurate than number. I'd have agreed with you.

Individual is more specific and accurate than minority.

This would be more accurate:

OP: The square root of a positive number is a number so the square root of a positive number times another number means it also a number.

ME: The square root of a positive number is not just number, it's a positive number.

OP: So what.

ME: It means we can conclude even more... It means the square root of a positive number times a number is the sign of the non square root number.




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