Your lack of this wasn’t the problem. The problem is you were wrong.
And you are right? The number of “like” votes on a forum with large self-selection characteristics is somehow indicative of the validity of a position, especially when comments appear in chronological order? Check out the comments that get upvoted at The Daily Mail or on conservative forums. Do they say much about who is “right”?
You might want to note that your comment about determining which positions are “right” based on number of likes has only one like at the moment, while Israel_B’s response questioning your logic also has one like. [quote=“ActionAbe, post:79, topic:18272, full:true”]
Public policy shouldn’t be subject to what people think is reasonable? Last I checked that was purportedly the basis for our system of governance.
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The US form of democracy is at least as concerned with limiting the power of the government as it is with being purely democratic. Both the Constitution and the Judicial branch are fundamentally (and intentionally) counter-majoritarian, while the division of power between the executive and the two houses of Congress—all three of which have different terms of office—are designed to curb the excesses of populism… and that’s without even taking into account the fact that representative democracies remove popular sentiment from policy an additional step.
In 2013 customs officials at Boston’s Logan Airport confiscated and burned Alash’s duyuglar and xapchyk, traditional Tuvan instruments used to accompany throat-singing.
I’ve been told that in Tuva instruments like the duyuglar are best made from the mortal remains of a treasured horse belonging to the player, and have sentimental value beyond their musical characteristics, but I don’t know if that was the case with Alash’s instruments.
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