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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Well, I was really just trying to find a significant number that would, in relation to the general population, make something ... anything ... ipso facto accepted by society. Or rather, something that - by virtue of said numbers - should be accepted by society.
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So, with the illegal immigrants we have 5% of our total population engaging in illegal immigration. I think it safe to say that at least 5% of the U.S. population was in some way involved with slavery.
Should society as a whole have supported slavery. Regardless of the
should, for the most part it did. But were the minority opposed to slavery wrong to promote its abolition?
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Is that a significant enough proportion of our population such that criminalizing them is distinctly out of whack with reality?
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Of course there is the question of whether illegal aliens should count towards the total population when considering official government policy. There are 32 million Canadians who presumably prefer a parliamentary system of government to our system. If they all took 8 steps to the south I don't think they're opinion suddenly becomes relevant.
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it's practically an institutionalization of mob mentality).
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But you're advocating the institution of mob mentality. Namely, that if enough people do something it is moral.