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To: UNflagburner
"Sure, having freedoms and how you exercise them are different things."

Different people have different definitions of freedom, based upon their personal belief system.

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.

Some find absolutely no problem with dictators and/or kings, at all (some in the US, even). Once again, this goes back to one's personal belief system.

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."

My point exactly. For example: the 9/11 Jihadists committed murder/suicide because, in their particular spiritual belief system, they were doing the right thing. They were simply following the teachings of Islam. Doing exactly what their conscience told them they ought to do. Only Catholics feel obligated to follow the Pope's guidance in spiritual matters. Some people's spiritual leaders exhort them to do things that we in America consider unspeakable atrocities.

42 posted on 03/13/2006 6:01:59 AM PST by CowboyJay (Rough Riders! Tancredo '08)
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To: CowboyJay

You seem to be arguing that freedom is a relative concept, because others have different ideas as to what it is. This is noncense. Just because some may prefer a king, that doesn't mean that now sefdom=liberty. Just because a terrorist wishes to redefine liberty as the ability to blow up an Israily bus, that doesn't make it so. In other words, their culture&religion leads the to make the wrong conclusion about what freedom is.


44 posted on 03/13/2006 6:46:33 PM PST by UNflagburner
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