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inagaki@aclab1.resrch.anritsu.co.jp (Shintaro Inagaki) writes:

>In article <2727@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>    >>
>    >>>However, I still think that the law should (and do in some countries)
>    >>>prevent deliberated discrimantion against some groups. For instance,
>    >>>in the US we have Equal Opportunity, Privacy Act, etc.etc. All those
>    >>>laws were created to protect "people".  
>    >>
>    >>This may sound like heresy, but has that *law* had made the U.S. a
>    >>kinder gentler place to live? I don't think so. 
>    >>

>If that law does not work enough in the United States,
>such a law never work to reduce prejudice in Japan.

I just came on a copy of the U.N. Universal Declartion of Human
Right. If ideas presented there were fully implemented, things
would indeed be very different but, in fact, they aren't. I'm not
denying the need for human rights, I'm just saying it's an
implementation problem, not a design problem. 

>Any laws do not work well here in Japan; no one believes in law.
>I present two supports:
>A) The Constitution of Japan states there should not be Japanese military,
>   but it does not work; we have a military called SDF.

Ahhh, but it's a 'force' not a 'military', didn't you notice (the
difference in the words) <smile>.

...

>So,
>how to survive in Japan:
>5) To support your opinion, do not state something is against the law;
>   it does not make sense.

If only the world made sense <sigh>...

Dave

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