The people who lived in the towns next to the concentration camps were fine with it.This is why they were forced to march through when the camps were liberated. The consensus of the German people was that the concentration camps were okay.
What about the people inside the camps?
Am I from another planet?
I mean that consensus includes ALL the people involved as in
"consent of the governed"
has that become a foreign concept now?
I think our legal system and politics has REALLY screwed up public
perception if there is no understanding of what consensus means anymore... gee whiz....
You are a fool.
Really.
Why PC??
READ what consensus means:
con·sen·sus(k
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n.
1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole: "Among political women . . . there is a clear consensus about the problems women candidates have traditionally faced" (Wendy Kaminer). See Usage Note at
redundancy.
2. General agreement or accord: government by consensus.
^ ACCORD ^
con•sen•sus(kənˈsɛn səs)
n., pl. -sus•es.
1. collective judgment or belief; solidarity of opinion: The consensus of the group was that they should meet twice a month.
2. general agreement or concord; harmony.
^ HARMONY ^
Note this is based on ACCORD and HARMONY
NOT COERCION
^^^ PoliticalChic: where does COERCION appear anywhere in the above definitions of consensus? ^^^
Can you explain why you are calling me a fool?
Do I need to call you into the Bullring over the
"definition of Consensus" to find me an honest person
who WILL show me where 'coercion' is anywhere in the definition or process?
if people are ABUSING others by coercion and CALLING it consensus,
that's like abusing others by forcing sex and CALLING it consensual:
Just because people abuse sex to rape people
doesn't "REDEFINE sex to include rape as consensual," just because they think or said it was.
WTF is going on here?
Maybe koshergrl knows better than to try to make words mean something they do not,
and then blame liberals for doing this.
If you and she are talking about "manufactured consent"
that is NOT what I mean.
That doesn't solve problems but suppresses them where they escalate and blow up worse.
I'm talking about REALLY resolving things to form an AGREED understanding,
a meeting of the minds where people freely and openly form a consensus by
resolving all the other objections and conflicts that blocked them previously.
If you can't agree, then separate, but stop letting politicians abuse
law and power to override the dissenting objections instead of resolving them in full.
The Code of Ethics for Govt Service was passed Unanimously by Congress
so it IS possible to write good laws and pass them by Consensus:
ethics-commission.net
We all agree to keep the Bill of Rights in the Constitution which is
also well-written and even allows different interpretations to co-exist.
Why can't we write laws by consensus, especially if these are SUPPOSED to represent the public.
Isn't everyone equally the public?
So shouldn't ALL our input and issues be resolved if a policy is going to represent us?
Nobody seems to be happy when a law is passed
that we DIDN'T consent to. So why do we put up with this?
why not demand that all conflicts either be resolved or kept out of gov and kept private?
PoliticalChic: do you believe in limited govt?
Wouldn't we HAVE to stick to just the Constitutional limits on govt
in order to get everyone to agree? wouldn't consensus achieve that goal
of SCREENING OUT any personal or political agenda that the public doesn't consent to?
If consensus were the standard on law, Wouldn't we only be left with laws that make common sense
and everyone agrees without any politics or beliefs involved?
And delegate more to the states and to the people to work out locally where they have closer representation,
instead of trying to make one blanket policy to micromanage each and every thing
to impose on the rest of the nation that cannot always agree? Why set ourselves up to fail this way?
Why not localize democracy with respect to "consent of the governed" so there is
a greater chance of equal representation, inclusion and protection of interests in the democratic process?