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moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:Yes, though more of the pen than of inspiration.On 3/23/2024 1:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:Did you have a stroke?In article <17bf6e37e6780b72$41800$3716115$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com>,>
moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>On 3/23/2024 3:16 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:>On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:26:58 +0000, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:>
>On Mar 22, 2024 at 4:08:21 AM PDT, "FPP" <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:In other words the "reductio ad absurdem" argument where one defeats
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No, I don't. Every time you bring that up, I ask you whether you think
that it'd be okay for the government to make exceptions to Amendment
XIX and prohibit women from voting since "no amendment is sacrosanct",
after all. Or since "no amendment is sacrosanct", it'd be okay for the
government to prohibit black people from voting (Amendment XV) and
allow people to be owned as slaves (Amendment XIII).
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And that's when *you* go into a coma.
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an argument by showing where the logical extension from it leads to an
absurdity.
"SOME amendments are sacrosanct", a theologism, is what's absurd here.
So explain how , for example, Amendment XIII might be acceptably
regulated beyond it's plain text.
Well, for example, the original...
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation."
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...could be amended to...
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for *CAPITAL* crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation."
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...or, if you're longing for a diversionary straw-man, to...
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for *NEGRO ANCESTRY* whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation."
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