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So what about the people who believe the Earth is flat?
That have the right to that belief. Why wouldn't they?

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Should we crash every satellite out there and shutdown NASA because orbital mechanics support the belief that the Earth is spherish?
Of course not. Sure we have public funding going toward an organization that not everyone believes in- that's nothing new. The flat earth society still has a right to its beliefs, but the fact remains that society benifits from having those satellites in orbit.

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Beliefs can't enter into the conversation. Not if it's going to be civilized debate. Not if it's about laws in America. When any side makes it about belief, everyone is suddenly forced into a corner with no where to go. Once they do, it almost always ends in repression or violence.
Beliefs MUST enter into the conversation. If it were not for belief, we'd have very few laws.

Murder is illegal because we believe it to be wrong.
Stealing is illegal because we believe it to be wrong.
Almost everything against the law is there because we as a society BELIEVE it to be wrong.

How can someone's rights be abridged unless we have some belief about what those rights are?


Edited by JeffS (14/06/2006 13:08)
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.