Re: Stupid Laws
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Actually, society gets to make that decision.
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I am confused as to how it is possible for 'society' to make a decision. Please enlighten me.
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By metonymy.
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I'd say metaphor rather than metonymy. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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I thought perhaps personification? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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It is quite a stretch of imagination to think a group of people can make "a decision". [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] The neurons in my brain have a pretty hard time, too, but they manage. Most of the time. LOL.
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I am part of society, yet I disagree with the decision. How is it possible for society to make a decision based on the fact that not everyone agrees with it or has a part in making it?
What you call "society," I call a "mob". In mobs, people make decisions for other people. That is what you are referring to sir.
Oh yeah, the right answer was "if 100% of individuals agree." Your argument is akin to asserting that when a mother and father say, "We are going to take a family trip to the Opera" (the children dissent obviously), that the family, not the parents, made this decision.
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