To: unspun
...the basic purpose of government is to place constraints upon human behavior. ... It amazes me after all these years that someone can be so ignorant about the purpose of government.
You're in the wrong country, if this is actually what you believe.
To: ActionNewsBill
Name one law that does not in some way constrain human behavior (hopefully for a greater good).
192 posted on
02/01/2003 4:54:08 PM PST by
unspun
("When I consider your heavens... what is man that You are mindful of him?" - Psalm 8)
To: ActionNewsBill
"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease." -- Thomas Jefferson
196 posted on
02/01/2003 5:03:07 PM PST by
Roscoe
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