Probably more like 2 out of 10 don't understand it.

Mary Anne — 12/8/2006 1:52:41 PM (archived)

I don't understand how cars work, but I still know that it's important to check my oil and coolant, and I'm still allowed to drive.

Precise knowledge isn't required. Knowing that habeas corpus is a guard against arbitrary imprisonment is enough.

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Ideology and Perception - ER - 11/30/2006 9:22:59 PM
- Wish I was half the philosopher - azstrummer - 12/1/2006 1:17:20 AM
  - re: Wish I was half the philosopher - ER - 12/1/2006 1:51:56 AM
    - re: Wish I was half the philosopher - gbaikie - 12/12/2006 11:14:21 AM
    - Reaching for the gun - azstrummer - 12/1/2006 3:11:18 AM
      - Did you even listen to yourself? - Lee - 12/1/2006 5:35:38 AM
        
        Oh, did that bother you? - azstrummer - 12/1/2006 10:23:19 PM
        
        Imaginary violations - TB - 12/2/2006 7:27:53 AM
        
        pulling the emergency brake - Robert - 12/3/2006 2:34:33 AM
        
        re: pulling the emergency brake - TB - 12/3/2006 6:19:00 AM
        
        eternal vigilance... - Robert - 12/3/2006 6:10:36 PM
        
        re: eternal vigilance... - TB - 12/5/2006 12:56:41 AM
        
        liberty=convenience? - Robert - 12/5/2006 10:46:27 PM
        
        re: liberty - TB - 12/5/2006 11:02:35 PM
        
        let... - Robert - 12/6/2006 2:51:02 AM
        
        "Authoritarianism" - TB - 12/6/2006 7:25:22 PM
        
        Willful blindness - Robert - 12/6/2006 7:57:30 PM
        
        re: Willful blindness - TB - 12/7/2006 4:29:20 AM
        
        still reframing - Robert - 12/7/2006 5:54:08 PM
        
        Do you even know who Altemeyer is? - TB - 12/7/2006 10:11:52 PM
        
        Addendum - TB - 12/6/2006 7:31:40 PM
        
        Consulting the Oracle at Google - Robert - 12/3/2006 2:16:20 AM
        
        do only americans couny? (n/t) - i Cognito - 12/2/2006 8:54:56 PM
        
        re: Imaginary violations - azstrummer - 12/2/2006 7:04:21 PM
        
        Oh, NOW we get to play Alternate Universe? - TB - 12/2/2006 11:15:54 PM
        
        How convenient - azstrummer - 12/3/2006 4:17:01 AM
        
        re: How convenient - TB - 12/3/2006 6:24:29 AM
        
        Gore - azstrummer - 12/3/2006 5:02:58 PM
        
        Still didn't answer the question. - Lee - 12/2/2006 3:58:23 AM
        
        What are you talking about? - RobVG - 12/2/2006 3:56:37 AM
        
        Another link - azstrummer - 12/2/2006 5:32:30 AM
        
        Text - RobVG - 12/2/2006 6:31:25 AM
        
        First they came for the aliens... - Mary Anne - 12/3/2006 5:00:03 PM
        
        re: First they came for the aliens... - TB - 12/5/2006 1:08:44 AM
        
        Abridgement of legal rights is very real. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 2:00:01 AM
        
        You want somebody coming for someone in the night? - TB - 12/5/2006 5:28:51 AM
        
        Oh, yes, the Taliban. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 2:05:23 AM
        
        The point... - TB - 12/7/2006 11:03:16 PM
        
        The ones we control are ourselves. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 11:18:32 PM
        
        Hmmm, and just maybe... - R.L. - 12/5/2006 10:09:37 PM
        
        Content warning? That was pretty harsh. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/5/2006 8:34:52 AM
        
        "He looks happy, doesn't he?" - TB - 12/5/2006 11:10:07 PM
        
        Try to imagine an enslaved father asking for his child to be returned to slavery. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 2:30:54 AM
        
        The Museum of the Battle of Ideas - TB - 12/7/2006 4:40:50 AM
        
        For me, it was about the law. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 1:23:27 PM
        
        Dredd Scott was also "the law." - TB - 12/7/2006 10:29:37 PM
        
        and in both of those cases... - azstrummer - 12/8/2006 12:16:03 AM
        
        re: cases - TB - 12/8/2006 1:58:18 AM
        
        Probably more like 2 out of 10 don't understand it. - Mary Anne - 12/8/2006 1:52:41 PM
        
        Rosa Parks went to jail. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2006 11:07:16 PM
        
        re: Rosa Parks went to jail. (n/t) - blanca - 12/11/2006 4:11:32 PM
        
        re: Rosa Parks went to jail. (n/t) - blanca - 12/11/2006 4:11:28 PM
        
        When they come for my guns... - RobVG - 12/3/2006 6:13:40 PM
        
        May not apply to you but does to me....... (n/t) - tony - 12/2/2006 7:07:48 AM
        
        ;-) Buh Buh. Goo Buh. Buh Buh Tones. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/4/2006 11:35:13 AM
        
        Between you and Rob's initimation that I'm lower than one his guns..... - Tony - 12/4/2006 8:00:47 PM
        
        You know what they (well I) say about signal feedback...;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/5/2006 8:46:01 AM
        
        Not exactly sure what to think Tony. - RobVG - 12/5/2006 1:47:43 AM
        
        Thanks (n/t) - RobVG - 12/2/2006 5:50:14 AM
        
        re: What are you talking about? - azstrummer - 12/2/2006 5:30:19 AM
        
        Perhaps you'd prefer he just be set ablaze. - ER - 12/1/2006 12:39:05 PM
        
        The only people I see on fire.. - Lee - 12/1/2006 6:37:57 PM
- re: Conversation - Raoul - 11/30/2006 10:36:59 PM
  - Saving Face on Mars - ER - 12/1/2006 1:16:47 AM
    - re: Thinking ahead - Raoul - 12/1/2006 6:34:50 AM
      - Truly Amazing How Some Can't Think Ahead - ID - 12/2/2006 2:10:50 AM
        
        re: Ah, yes,a good ID! - Raoull - 12/2/2006 5:40:35 PM
        
        re: Ah, yes,a good ID! - M.A.E. - 12/12/2006 6:36:43 AM
- re: I agree (n/t) - Johannes - 11/30/2006 10:10:10 PM

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