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    3 months ago

    And then what? A vacuum gets filled by something else. We do need to reexamine some of the archaic ideas just like its writers thought we should and would. It’s short-sighted because we’ve hung onto old words for so long we can’t even agree on what they mean. Jefferson has some good quotes on how expecting laws then to apply to a future society is ridiculous. And yet here we are…