Exerpts for a great Thomas Sowell piece:
Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win.
Americans have long had the right to put their candidates and their ideas to a vote. Now there seems to be a sense that your rights have been trampled on if you don't win.
He goes on about the violence of the prop 8 protesters.
While demanding tolerance from others, gay activists apparently feel no need to show any themselves.
How did we get to this kind of situation?
With all the various groups who act as if they have a right to win, we got to the present situation over the years, going back to the 1960s, where the idea started gaining acceptance that people who felt aggrieved don't have to follow the rules or even the law.
"No justice, no peace!" was a slogan that found resonance.
Like so many slogans, it sounds good if you don't stop and think-- and awful if you do.
Almost by definition, everybody thinks their cause is just. Does that mean that nobody has to obey the rules? That is called anarchy.
Nobody is in favor of anarchy. But some people want everybody else to obey the rules, while they don't have to.
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