Saw this one on another site...
Posted on 11/05/2004 8:44:13 AM PST by RightSideRedux
Herbert Spencer: From The Proper Sphere Of Government:
I asked one of the members of Parliament whether a majority of the House could legitimize murder. He said, No. I asked him if it could sanctify robbery. He thought not. But I could not make him see that, if these things be always wrong, and not to be made right by the decisions of statesmen, then similarly all things must be always right or always wrong, apart from the authority of the law; and if the right and wrong of the law is not in harmony with this intrinsic right and wrong, the law itself is criminal.
A little ammo for your next encounter.
---"What they don't understand is that America rejected their Socialist program. America loves freedom."---
Exactly! I said this to a friend of mine the other day. For years the left ran - with the cover of the media - as liberals/progressives. Today they have been exposed for they really are - far left anti-American idiots. The public has seen them and rejected them in - 2000 - 2002 - and now 2004. What I can't understand is why the "regular" democrats don't take control back, or at least leave and become Republicans. My wife switched parties in 2000 after years in the democratic party. The party left her behind. Frankly, I hope they don't wake up - better for us in the long run.
Cheers to all.
How do they think babies happen?
I've asked him if I were to kill him and the majority of people said it was okay would that make it right. His reply is that if the majority of people think it's okay then it's right. I think the statement you quoted supposes that the person answering "No" must have a Jewish or Christian moral foundation of Thou Shalt Not Murder. To him there is no "intrinsic right and wrong".
I've come to believe that a person who does not believe in God can't be made to believe there are absolute right and wrongs. If not for God's commandment, what makes murder wrong?
They're operating under the false premise that Republicans are racists, when it was a Republican who ended Slavery and Republicans in Congress who forced through the Civil Rights Act, and Democrats who use terms like "Jew bastard," "cracker," "hymietown," and so on.
I am loving every minute of their sniveling! They remind me of that guy in those old beach movies - the motorcycle gang leader who always got stomped and would whine "Why me...why me allatime?"
You should have SEEN the great look I got from a lib woman two weeks ago when I made that retort back at her!!! PRICELESS. Try it!
So that explains the "Kerry will make the lame walk, raise the dead, etc." strategy - they were trying not to be "Out Jesused"!
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."
Q:"What are the best things in life, Conan?"
A:"To defeat your enemies in battle and to hear the lamentations of their women and girly-men."
Ask him how he feels about slavery, or the KKK, or seal-clubbing, or Nazis. Most liberals are hypocrites about the "moral relativism" thing.
I happen to know that morality is very logical, and doesn't need a supreme being to enforce it. I would know murder was wrong even without the 10 commandments.
They can articulate abstract thought, but fail to see it as a variant of '...anyone but Bush...'
"Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus, and the pernicious superstition was checked for a moment, only to break out once more, not merely in Judaea, the home of the disease, but in the capital itself, where all things horrible or shameful in the world collect and find a vogue." - Tacitus, 117AD
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