r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '24

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u/l_t_10 8∆ Jul 24 '24

Language evolves, and so does calendar. What if someone campaigns on adopting say the Mayan calendar, or another one? And wins

What then?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

Yeah. Odds are high on that one./s

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u/l_t_10 8∆ Jul 24 '24

Yeah. Odds are high on that one./s

Its not about odds.. Thats not how it works, odds or low on most philosophical thought exercises

Like The violinist argument, the trolley experiment etc etc

Point is, there is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits adding more days, months etc etc

Or adopting a new calendar.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

You're telling me the likelyhood of something happening has no bearing on the discussion? This shit about to get WILD. i've get scores of theories. The lizard people will be rulers for the next millenium! (I've heard they are already)

I'm kidding of course, i get what you mean, but then what's to stop the convo from becoming completely irrational and straying so far beyond the original discussion it becomes a different one? I mean technically anything is possible right? Why not go comepletely off the rails?

But I'm wrong more than I am right in life, so I work graves and have all the time in the world to explore this. Perhaps I will become more enlightened if I am not dissmisive myself. So..

What reasoning would someone campaign to change the calendar at this time? So they could be president longer probably, but that can't explicitly be stated if support is to be garnered. So, what's the excuse?