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To: frgoff
Found someone that agrees with you that too much freedom for individuals is a bad thing...

"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
-Bill Clinton

121 posted on 02/24/2005 8:54:14 AM PST by Dead Corpse (The neighborhood is pretty dead at night, and I'm the one to blame....)
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To: Dead Corpse
Found someone that agrees with you that too much freedom for individuals is a bad thing.

He's right. Again, unlike you, I can agree with the statement while disagreeing with the messenger.

We have laws against murder precisely for the reason Bill Clinton stated. Ditto laws against certain kinds of narcotics.

The fact is, there is no such thing as unbridled freedom, and it is also a fact that people who use freedom irresponsibly must be limited in the freedom they can exercise. Because, you see, we live in a society. A society is a GROUP of individuals living together. Unbridled individual freedom is impossible in a society. The result is anarchy.

This is not rocket science. Push a libertarian on it, and you'll eventually get them to admit that what they want is unbridled freedomg for THEMSELVES, and everyone else can just go to h*ll.

135 posted on 02/24/2005 9:06:51 AM PST by frgoff
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