20th September 2005, 3:51 PM
The burden of proof lies on the claimant Darunia.
The main thing I have a problem with is the idea that we shouldn't be complaining about our leaders. Weltall made a daily habit of that himself not but scant half decade ago :D. In a democracy, politics is something the people SHOULD be thinking about, and it is silly to assume that people weren't concerned about it until recently.
Yes, a house "divided against itself can't stand", but does that mean we can't critique our leaders at all? I was under the impression that only meant you couldn't just make a NEW government and declare war on the old one.
The main thing I have a problem with is the idea that we shouldn't be complaining about our leaders. Weltall made a daily habit of that himself not but scant half decade ago :D. In a democracy, politics is something the people SHOULD be thinking about, and it is silly to assume that people weren't concerned about it until recently.
Yes, a house "divided against itself can't stand", but does that mean we can't critique our leaders at all? I was under the impression that only meant you couldn't just make a NEW government and declare war on the old one.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)