Which has more rights, living breathing human beings, or inanimate objects and subjective symbols? (Please pick one or the other, no worming your way around it with the definiton of "is" and such.)
2006-07-29 04:09:53 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
When you continually chip away at what a "symbol" "represents", does it eventually represent nothing?
When a country is founded as an alternative to tyranny, and later emulates tyranny, what is it then an alternative to?
Is a world full of symbols and devoid of life preferable to you?
Can you recognize a distraction when you see one?
Can you recognize trumped up non-issues?
Can you recognize politicians who create problems so that government can solve them?
What do you make decisions with, your brain or your nerve endings?
How educated, about your own history, are you that spout off about whatever the "founding fathers" did or didn't say? Did your history lessons come from verifiable sources or the Sunday pulpit?
2006-07-29 06:17:27 · update #1
Incidentally, this has nothing to do with Israel or any other country besides the United States. Furthermore, the modern United States tries at every opportunity to COPY Canada (socialism), Nazi Germany (fascism) and Iran (theocracy). It's the funny little schizoid trichotomy we've developed over roughly the last century and a half.
2006-07-29 06:17:42 · update #2
What happens when you forbid a teenager to do something? More often than not you made the taboo action 10 times more appealing. The fact that the burning of cloth is even in our conciousness HERE makes it appealing for mindless terrorists abroad to burn our flag for whatever symbolism they think it generates.
But at the end of the day, BOTH protecting AND burning cloth don't accomplish a damn thing. Symbolism is the emptiest, most pointless pursuit unless you are writing fiction.
But it gives us something to get all up in arms over for 5 minutes, while more cunning people in power do things to you with actual consequences.
2006-07-29 06:30:38 · update #3
When symbols have more importance than people, this nation is in a sorry state.
2006-07-29 06:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 3⤋
I think burning humans is already illegal. It would be considered attempted murder. Now if we step away from the LEGAL questions then yeah I say the person has more rights. Although for the record I am against the Constitutional Amendment banning physical desecration of the flag. Why not just make Flag Code a LAW and enforce that instead?
2006-07-29 04:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burning people. I remember years ago in high school when someone painted a mural in the hall way of our flag burning and so many people go offended. Killing Innocent people for any reason is not good. Look at what is going on overseas. We are killing people for different religious beliefs. We could be doing the exact same thing over here if we wanted to but no we are killing people in a poor country who have never done anything wrong to us. People should mind their own business and worry about what is going on in their own lives or at least worry about things going on in our own country.
2006-07-29 04:14:18 · answer #3 · answered by hopeISalive 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People. Apparently, the proper way to dispose a flag is to burn it. I don't understand when people get offended when they see a burning flag. I believe a flag represents politicians. How many politicians do whats in the best interest of their citizens?
2006-07-29 04:55:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are more important.
No matter what flags may represent, they're a peice of cloth and can be easily replicated. Human beings that mean something to their loved ones are impossible to replace.
Plus, PEOPLE CREATED FLAGS!
2006-07-29 04:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by Tina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worry about burning people. Currently there are countries that are run by people that believe that their god wants them to wear C4 around their waists and become martyrs in his name. These very same countries are now enriching uranium. Very soon we will see hundreds of thousands of people burning all in the name of a god that is supposed to be peaceful. I am very concerned about this... Forget the burning cloth... I want to keep my skin below it's flash point!
2006-07-29 04:15:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think people make nation, flag, etc so people have more rights and people are more important but when two persons having different thinkings meet and one and the other tries to prove himself right then there comes the issue of burning people
similarly for u ur flag is important and if someone doesn't respects it then even u would feel to punish him...
2006-07-29 06:58:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burning flags as an expression of protest and dissent should ALWAYS be protected by the 1st amendment to the constitution.
Burning people is inexcusable.
So is poisoning them via lethal injection, making them breath cyanide gas, or electrocuting them. I don't care what the rationale (sic?), or who does it.
2006-07-29 06:17:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burning People. No one really cares about flags. They're just cloth with designs on em.
2006-07-29 04:12:17 · answer #9 · answered by hammerthingy66 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each of us is a uniquie individual, the product of thousands of generations of parents, coming together at the point of our conception. No one can duplicate us, except God.
Anyone can learn to make another flag.
2006-07-29 04:14:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More concerned about flag burning and the mind set of the flag burners.
2006-07-29 04:13:46 · answer #11 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋