Only the right people should have a vote!

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The recent Danish EU-election on the European Patent Court, allowing software patents (which basically is the ability to patent thoughts and ideas, not actual inventions), was
carried through by more than 60 % in favor.

I now only have contempt towards the wrong beings being allowed to vote. People who disagree with me, should be banned from voting!

I am NOT in favor of democracy!

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Thank you, Captain Obvious...


.. but why do you then complain about the apparent lack of human rights in Denmark here:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt254297.html

... when you yourself are against not only universal suffrage, but the very concept of democracy itself?

After all, universal suffrage is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 21, section 3)...

Their freedom and independence party, the Danish People's Party, doubled their number of seats.

I'd say they did alright.

What's the link here? Between the vote result and intelligence, I mean?

"I disagree with the result" -> "The majority of people who voted on this issue were WRONG" -> "The most probable reason for people to be WRONG is lack of the necessary intelligence to be RIGHT"

At least, I'm assuming.

Either that, or my fellow countrymen are evil!

Either way, an election is good when it gives the desired result. If it doesn't, the election should be declared invalid.

Neither the UN or the EU have patent on human rights.

Also, democracy is NOT the same as human rights. Often, it is contradictory.

Human rights can only be there independent of the will of the people.

Remember: Hitler was elected by the people in a democratical way!

I never said they did.

I was just puzzled by the fact that you (1) complain about lack of human rights in Denmark and (2) want to restrict the right to vote in Denmark...

Doesn't that seem a bit inconsistent to you?

No.

The right to vote has nothing to do with human rights.
Unless, of course, if those who can cast a qualifed vote on the right candiates and issues, are deprived of that right.

And who should decide whether someone can cast "qualified vote" and who the "right candidates and issues" should be?

Me. Or my elect few.

I am sick and tired of people not doing as I tell them to do.

Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury... I rest my case.

Good fun.

Stalin thought so as well.

Actually, I think the only ones thrilled with democracy as it exists today in the west are those narrow interests who benefit from the manufacturing of democratic legitimacy for policies which undermine the public interest. As long as the majority is ignorant of the ways power systems work and to whose benefit, the democratic process will continue to be little more than a game played out between propagandists for the benefit of the few. Anyone interested in the public good should be dedicated to dismantling or bypassing the vast propaganda apparatus and social engineering programs designed to keep the public ignorant, insular and confused. Blaming the recipients of propaganda for their stupidity is unjust and self-defeating, albeit tempting.

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Get therapy.

Have you tried asking politely? I find as long as a request is pretty reasonable, and politely made, most people are obliging.

You don't seem to know very much about intellectual property law.

From their very beginning in the 15th century, patents have always been available to protect unique processes for producing goods. Some of the very earliest patents are found in the area of Venetian glass making. In english patent law, it was well established by the 18th century that patents could be obtained for improvements to existing inventions, and for general ideas without a demonstrated practical application.

You might not like software patents, but the validity of these is grounded in centuries of European intellectual property law, without which the industrial revolution might never have happened.