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To: spunkets
My observation is that it most often takes place at the ballot box. The loss is piecemeal.

And the ballot box is backed up by armed force. Government is armed force; nothing more, nothing less. Various forms of government are different ways of determining who gets to control that armed force.

There is also no such thing as "a freedom". There are rights.

Fine. There are no rights which cannot be infringed or even completely suppressed by the simple expedient of armed force.

If the opportunity exists for the rights of individuals to be taken away by the majority,

That opportunity always exists, everywhere. To think otherwise is to be ignorant both of history and of human nature.

fact that those minority individuals haven't multiplied like rabbits, or mice.

Nice piece of ZPG propaganda there ... If Civilisation A refuses to procreate at a sufficent rate to maintain its population and Civilisation B procreates at a rate exceeding replacement, Civilisation A will disappear and Civilisation B will replace it. You can duck and weave all day, but the facts of demographic change won't go away.

337 posted on 10/10/2006 12:46:55 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard
"You can duck and weave all day, but the facts of demographic change won't go away."

I haven't ducked, or weaved at all. I said that the idea that the purpose of giving the gift of life to staff an armed force is abhorent. Your last post, #337, makes it clear that you think the purpose of giving the gift of life is to staff a force.

351 posted on 10/10/2006 12:56:49 PM PDT by spunkets
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