On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 18:16 -0800, Frank Reichert wrote: > The issue at hand therefore, and one in which Bill Anderson and I > have been discussing, centres around who is the Represents a > particular individual, not who Represents a particular State, or > country.
No, again it does not. It centers around whether or nto your Representative is your Representative. Whether s/he represents *your views, beliefs, and preferences is irrelevant. That elected person is your Representative. > Every individual makes either a tacit or voluntary > choice whether or not a political office holder represents them > or not. Bill strongly suggests that I am somehow bound to > acknowledge that even a Representative, or in your case, this > President that I strongly oppose, is my Representative. Well I won't go with the President one, as s/he is not elected to be a Representative. But yes, whether or not I opposed, say Andreasson as my State Senator is irrelevant to the fact that he is. He represents me, though clearly not my views. Personally, I don't see what is so hard to understand about that. When my wife attends a parent teacher conference, she represents me, she is my representative, though she may or may not represent my views and beliefs (indeed we do not always agree -- I got that in the "marriage contract" *lol*) > If you believe that Bill's argument here is the correct one, then > this certainly implies that individuals are the victims of > coersion and force, a have no right to choose for themselves who > represents them, their issues, convictions and position on > various matters. Incorrect. You are conducting a logical fallacy (of composition, IIRC) by lumping those together. Those are not all synonymous, nor mutually dependent. As I've said before, even when I run, I don't like all the views of the candidate I vote for. Thus nobody can meet all those requirements, if indeed they were such. Cheers, Bill _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
