Quote Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
The affront is the fact that the Royal family are afforded certain rights and privileges simply due to the fact of their birth. In any true Democracy, this is unacceptable. I was fervently against the old inherited peers in the house of Lords for the same reason

I didn't say anything about a supreme head of state with all powers-that's some nice putting words in my mouth. In fact, do we really need an official head of state? Removing the royal family from the equation, our political system would seem to be fine. We wouldn't need to elect a president or anything like that.
Ididn't mean to put any words in your mouth, I was merely drawing your statements to what seemed to me to their logical conclusion. By the same logical process, your argument that the Royal Family are given unfair treatment because of a mere accident of birth would mean that the descendants of a wealthy industrialist would not be allowed their inheritance. You thus attack one of the foundations of the modern capitalist world, the right to inherit.