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To: KrisKrinkle
None of these things have any rights. The article starts out with a BS proposition.

Are you able to read? You might want to prove it by reading the article for content.

It's point is that *government* is a BS proposition. Sheesh.

17 posted on 02/01/2009 2:27:37 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: Starfleet Command

“Are you able to read? You might want to prove it by reading the article for content.”

Your post does nothing to disprove my words.

Throughout the article the author treats government as if it has a life of its own. He backs that treatment into the proposition “No government has the right to exist”. It is self evident that no government has the right to exist (or any rights at all) as it is inanimate like a house, firearm or rock, which also have no rights. If government had a life of its own it might be possible to discuss whether or not it had a right to exist. Since it has no self animation, since it is a creation of people and is animated by people it would be more appropriate to start out with the proposition that “People have no right to bring a government into existence” and go on from there.

Treating government like it has a life of its own is similar to treating guns like they kill people and spoons like they make people fat. In each case any fault belongs to the people in control of the inanimate creation, not the creation itself.

Conservatives who want nothing to do with government because they blame government for “whatever” instead of blaming the people in control of government are like the hopolophobes who want nothing to do with guns because they blame guns for killing people. In both cases they concede any control they might have had to people who will use that control against them.


18 posted on 02/01/2009 4:41:22 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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