That’s the problem. No people ever think they’re the unenlightened ones. Society changes but not always for the better.
The Constitution is a safety rail to protect us from ourselves.
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months agoI think we have more enlightened and more informed views now than 270 years ago is alls I’m saying.
Just the right to bare arms is such an example. Weapons are completely different these days.
That’s the problem. No people ever think they’re the unenlightened ones. Society changes but not always for the better.
The Constitution is a safety rail to protect us from ourselves.
I think we have more enlightened and more informed views now than 270 years ago is alls I’m saying.
Bruh with literally every country on the planet turning more fascist by the day that’s a bold statement to make
I mean it’s like y’all are forgetting that slavery was well more prevalent in the western world, although there could be an argument for wage slavery today.
The fact that being homosexual, trans, or whatever else was condemned and you would go to prison for such things.
The world today is fucked, but it was a lot more fucked a couple of hundred years ago.
Guess what stopped slavery in the US, legally? A Constitutional amendment.
wolfeh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I exercise the right to bare arms as often as possible, and my farmer’s tan is proof of that.