Are victims of authority a minority or majority?
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So are children victims..of their parents??\nResident's victims of state laws?\nStudent's victims of their university?\nEmployees  victim's of their employer?\nThe public victim's of the news media/print business conglomerate's \n...Specify WHAT type of authority you mean..
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From my perspective, it has nothing to do with any one person or group finding a term "offensive."  It has everything to do with wanting POWER.\n\nOne form or POWER is the "double standard," in which one group of people can engage in some activity or speech which another group cannot.  \n\nThere have been double standards since the dawn of time, and to this day, you will hear women complain about the double-standards about men's sexual behavior and their general assertiveness as compared to that of women.  \n\nA newer incarnation of the double standard is political correctness, in which one group of people attempt to control and limit the words or thoughts of another.\n\nWhen one group can effectively limit the ability of of another to do the same, the first group "feels" a sense of control or power.  I say "feels" because any such quest for power, based in the desire to forbid another person from saying a particular 6-letter word is a misguided and inconsequential exertion of power.  it really changes nothing (at least in the short term).  About the only thing it accomplishes is inflicting a sense of guilt on the intended target.  If you're motivated by guilt, it has worked.  \n\nIn the scheme of things, it's minor.  You can choose to fight it if you want, but to do so involves incurring the wrath of a politcally-correct society, who has accepted, for whatever reason, the argument from the messenger that this restriction should be enforced, not legally, but socially, via scorn, derision and ostracization.  That may mean losing friends, losing your job, or quite possibly losing points on Yahoo Answers (or even your entire account).\n\nSo that's the way I see it.  And If the people who are trying to control the speech, be they black or female, or whatever, really look at it objectively, they can't help but admit that there's a grasp for a modicum of power involved.
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there are no laws in the kingdom of God ,majority or minority are words that cease to exist on your death.You are God as God is you
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Lobby at whatever level you are able to...sad is the day when a minority, through political correctness becomes a majority! I am first generation Australian and was taught early, Australian first, then you can please yourself with race, religion etc.
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Yes, I agree.\n\nGood relationships, whether personal or societal are an EXCHANGE of power.\n\nBad ones are when the exchange is unequal.
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Tim is correct in this.  Now on the rights of an individual, when some one breaks the law, what rights do they have and the rights of the victims have? The law is the law. You break it, you pay the fine, sounds simple? Yet it is not.  America has grown weak with extremist trying to push their platforms at the cost of the society as a whole.  If we would have been a leader in the guest worker programs like so many Asian countries are, the US would not have a 100th of the problems it does now.
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I did find one article on the role of authority figures.Hope this helps.\n\nAll the best.
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I agree with you that it does occur, though I feel people too often cry discrimination just so they can get something out of it, not necessarily because it truly occurred.  Sorry if that's not really an opposing argument, but perhaps it will add another angle to your paper?
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The term Majority doesn't necessarily mean highest number, it does however, mean the group with the most power.  So how many different ethnic groups can you count who have been president?  For that matter, how many women?  Incidentally people with disabilities make up the largest minority group in this country.
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Authority: They make the rules.\nRules:     Without them there would be anarchy.\nProperty:  You should respect other people's property if you expect them to respect yours.\nOpinion:  You should respect other peoples' opinions even though you may not agree with them. they have a right to express a reasonable opinion; as long as expressing that opinion isn't harmful to society as a whole. For example racist or extremist opinions.
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They are not only responsible for it, they have created it.\nResponsibility is a mild term and may be attributed even to Saddam or others, but those who have created it are the main culprits.
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In the democratic form of goverment that the U.S. currently has, that is correct.\n\nDemocracy in the U.S. does not mean "rule by the majority."  In a democracy there are certain fundamental human rights that are protected.  Among these rights is the right to freely practice an individual's chosen religion, any religion, without government interference AND without establishing an official state religion over any other religion.
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1.  I believe that God will take into account the forces that shape us when we face him for the final reckoning.\n\n2.  "Blame", or rather responsibility, is not divided when it is shared.  I may be fully responsible for my actions, but if I act the way my father taught me to act, he too has some responsibility for my behavior.  \n\n3. In reality, people who do evil almost never think they are doing anything wrong.  Hitler thought he was cleaning the world of inferior humans when he sent homosexuals, gypsies and jews to concentration camps.  When you see a criminal blame society for their crimes, it's usually more in the way of lashing back out at the people who are putting them into jail than trying to explain their actions.\n\n4.  For those of us try to explain how certain circumstances led to a person's actions, we are not trying to excuse their behaviour, we are trying to *understand* it so that we can prevent it EFFECTIVELY.  How can you fix a problem if you don't understand what caused it? Before you say "That's what prisons are for", I will point you to recidivism rates. When someone is sent to jail, society loses almost all of the leverage that the threat of punishment provides.  So we have to understand how people get to the point that the threat of punishment doesn't work before we can effectively stop crime.
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Majority does not equal truth.\n\nGod rules.
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The fact is that you can't.  What I have seen from having been to a few of those countries is that they primarily run by culture, not law or religion.  Sure, they claim it's the law or part of religion, but careful examination of both will tell you the opposite.  She won't get justice because in those countries they just don't care.  The victim is the criminal in their eyes.  They criminal is rarely punished whereas the victim has a stigma attached to her permanently and may even be murdered to protect her family's "honor" if that's what you want to call it.
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It's definitely a shame when authority figures abuse their power, and it's often difficult to bring justice since they are in certain ways "above the law" though they shouldn't be.\n\nHowever, I'm not quite sure what the question here is. I'm sorry, but it's very hard to follow.
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I do not think so- because you have others following your lead... The minority will eventually become the majority if they continue questioning as you have and if they raise their kids with what you have taught them. "I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."- George Carlin