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To: kjam22
I would define rights different than you. I don't think there are such thing as "rights". That's just a word that Jefferson used. I think there are choices and consequences... both good and bad. And I think God gave us the ability to chose anything. (God given right as Jefferson would word it) Our government through the will of the people, and sometimes against the will of the people attaches consequences to some of those choices that we won't like.

You don't believe in rights?

You believe that that the government can regulate any avenue of life it chooses?

That scares me.

319 posted on 06/06/2005 9:32:54 AM PDT by highball
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To: highball
Yet our constitution says that the government by 2/3 vote and 3/4 can do exactly that. It can take away any of your "rights" that it chooses.

Your individual rights are not sacred. And they aren't guaranteed. I think libretarians forget that sometimes.

321 posted on 06/06/2005 9:34:57 AM PDT by kjam22
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