06-20-2003, 12:06 AM
"The change will come, or it won't, in good time. If that aint fast enough for you, so be it."
What does this mean? Nothing, as far as I can tell. What, we're all supposed to be observers rather than advocates? If you want it changed (I do) then you say so (I did). If you're a citizen of a democratic country, you say so with a vote (I did). Then it gets passed into law (It has). Then other people look to it, to see if it is just (It is).
So, where, exactly, did I jump the gun? What arcane process should I have undergone? What are you calling me out for? For being so terribly pigheaded as to believe in peoples' right to determine their own marital arrangements? For suggesting (GASP) that a Canadian law might actually be as just in your country as in mine? This is why you accuse me of arrogance? For hoping that, just maybe, a just law in my country might just spill over into yours, thanks to more than a century of mutual trust?
If your laws are just, they will be seen as such.
Jester
What does this mean? Nothing, as far as I can tell. What, we're all supposed to be observers rather than advocates? If you want it changed (I do) then you say so (I did). If you're a citizen of a democratic country, you say so with a vote (I did). Then it gets passed into law (It has). Then other people look to it, to see if it is just (It is).
So, where, exactly, did I jump the gun? What arcane process should I have undergone? What are you calling me out for? For being so terribly pigheaded as to believe in peoples' right to determine their own marital arrangements? For suggesting (GASP) that a Canadian law might actually be as just in your country as in mine? This is why you accuse me of arrogance? For hoping that, just maybe, a just law in my country might just spill over into yours, thanks to more than a century of mutual trust?
If your laws are just, they will be seen as such.
Jester