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To: UNflagburner
"Shares Reagan's beleif that people across the world desire liberty, and that America will be safer when they get it."

Therein lies the Libertarian fallacy. Not everyone expresses their liberty in the same fashion. Personal expression of liberty is based upon personal ethos. Ethos is based upon mythos. When those of contrary mythos express personal liberty in each other's presence, conflict ensues. Why we all can't just 'get along'.

Suicide bombers were just exercising freedom of religion.

36 posted on 03/12/2006 9:05:12 PM PST by CowboyJay (Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
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To: everyone

Jeffrey Hart has really lost it.


37 posted on 03/12/2006 9:36:35 PM PST by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws.")
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To: CowboyJay
Not everyone expresses their liberty in the same fashion. Personal expression of liberty is based upon personal ethos. Ethos is based upon mythos.

Sure, having freedoms and how you exercise them are different things.

When those of contrary mythos express personal liberty in each other's presence, conflict ensues. Why we all can't just 'get along'.

Right, hence the desire of people in other countries to have a system which allows them to resolve such conflicts without having a dictator simply impose his will.

Suicide bombers were just exercising freedom of religion.

You have a very peculiar defenition of freedom. Personally, I'll take John Paul II's:"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."

39 posted on 03/13/2006 3:36:50 AM PST by UNflagburner
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