The point is, in response to your insulting dig I am not paranoid about losing my rights because where I live I have already lost rights that most people enjoy in the US, because the leader of a local political machine -- the Mayor of a single city i cannot vote out of office -- has enough control over the County I live in to take those rights away by controlling who gets elected to the county board for Chicago's many districts.
The last piece was simply an example of why I care about diluting that right for people who might not be appreciative of the 2nd but still respect the 1st. You keep projecting complex **** onto things that are complex, like using a
simple analogy for a concern of mine that people with a similar concern for another part of the Bill of Rights might appreciate if the show were on the other foot. Was anyone else confused? Let's look at it again:
So yeah. I guess I am being paranoid about the ability for me to become a felon overnight and lose rights that people living in every state around me and most states in the US freely enjoy, because the mayor needs a scape goat for his failed leadership and the failed social policies of the 1960s.
It would be like waking up and finding you can't post on message boards in your state because some pedophiles use them to troll for victims and we need "sensible speech control."
Note the:
It would be like...Analogy is both the cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or an argument from a particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general. The word analogy can also refer to the relation between the source and the target themselves, which is often, though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological notion of analogy.
Niels Bohr's model of the atom made an analogy between the atom and the solar system.
Analogy plays a significant role in problem solving, decision making, perception, memory, creativity, emotion, explanation and communication. It lies behind basic tasks such as the identification of places, objects and people, for example, in face perception and facial recognition systems. It has been argued that analogy is "the core of cognition" (Hofstadter in Gentner et al. 2001).
Specific analogical language comprises exemplification, comparisons, metaphors, similes, allegories, and parables, but not metonymy. Phrases like and so on, and the like, as if, and the very word like also rely on an analogical understanding by the receiver of a message including them.
Analogy is important not only in ordinary language and common sense, where proverbs and idioms give many examples of its application, but also in science, philosophy and the humanities. The concepts of association, comparison, correspondence, mathematical and morphological homology, homomorphism, iconicity, isomorphism, metaphor, resemblance, and similarity are closely related to analogy. In cognitive linguistics, the notion of conceptual metaphor may be equivalent to that of analogy.
Analogy has been studied and discussed since classical antiquity by philosophers, scientists and lawyers. The last few decades have shown a renewed interest in analogy, most notable in cognitive science.
As hard as this may be for you to believe, some of us feel just as strongly about the 2nd as the 1st. That is why I added that
analogy. It is a real right to us, and it still has value for the very reason the framer included it. Another check on the govt. along with the separation of power among the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Along with the civilian control of the military. As well as the basic natural right to self defense.
I like to shoot, but that is not why I particularly care about the issue to the extent that I do.
Charon
