From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 22:24:51 MDT
At 08:07 PM 9/24/00 -0700, Hal wrote:
>Ron H. writes:
>> Are you suggesting that a government can be a democracy without having any
>> protection for the rights of minorities? Does that mean you do not have
to
>> have respect for a minorities lives or property?? How about their
political
>> rights? Can you respect their lives without respecting their property?
How
>> about an artist or writer's right to their work.
>Democracy just means rule by the people. I don't see anything in that
>definition which specifies that minorities' rights have to be respected.
>The American democracy initially allowed slavery, and I think the ancient
>Greek version did as well.
Yes.
Here there is a limited democracy or indirect democracy. The government's
democrary puts into action property rights (re: rights concerning what a
person thinks or ideas a person has exclusive control over) by enforcing
the laws. It can limit these as well.
As an artist, I copyright my writing and sign my digital images. The issue
here would be what percentage of my work another person can borrow.
Natasha
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