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To: ALPAPilot
“Your argument is essentially this: The south had a “natural right” to secede in order to perpetuate and extend the institution of chattel slavery. The suggestion that a group of people have the “natural right” to deny the natural rights of others is absurd.

No founder, nor any natural rights theorist; not Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Bacon, Blackstone, or Locke ever argued for an unqualified, unlimited right to political seperation. What you describe as a “Natural Right” is simply anarchy or tyranny.”

No, my argument is essentially this: We have a right,Natural or not,to Secede from New England politics. You may wish the continued debate at your own peril. My choice is to Secede.Plain enough?

174 posted on 03/12/2010 10:57:58 AM PST by Idabilly
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To: Idabilly
We have a right,Natural or not,to Secede from New England politics. You may wish the continued debate at your own peril. My choice is to Secede.Plain enough?

The "Will to Power" already has a home: www.democraticunderground.com

177 posted on 03/12/2010 12:41:31 PM PST by ALPAPilot
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