Some of the comments on “Institutionalization” could not differentiate between between getting a job in an established institution and being sentenced to life in the penitentiary. If you DON’T THINK about what I said, you get fixed on the word “institution” and decide that anything that has lasted more than half an hour is an institution.

YFF confused democracy and freedom. He asked, if an electorate decided it wanted Hate Speech Laws, isn’t that freedom?

No, it is the democracy that the Bill of Rights was written to protect us from.

mderpelding wrote that I was wrong about the instability of multi-racial states because there are so many different opinions in homogeneous states. Sometimes just stating a proposition in plain English is the answer to it.

I have a similar problem with words like “starvation.” Nobody knows what it means anymore. Starvation is not malnutrition. Every Pharaoh was severly malnourshed. Every Pharaoh had worms in his gut. If a child or an old person were in your care and he tested out the way every Pharaoh did you would be subject to CRIMINAL penalties.

But no Pharaoh ever STARVED.

Our civilization is only one in history where STARVATION is considered intolerable. Which means that whern I mention how white people have eliminated starvation outside of BUGS, I get a lecture about how the white man allows malnutrition.

When you comment, a sense of proportion is helpful.