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To: SteveMcKing

You deserve NOTHING if it comes at the expense of my liberty.

Safety is only a feeling. It is not an absolute state of being.


189 posted on 06/01/2006 1:22:20 PM PDT by Badray (CFR my ass. There's not too much money in politics. There's too much money in government hands.)
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To: Badray
"You deserve NOTHING if it comes at the expense of my liberty."

Had you emphasized "my", I would agree with you. I did not consider the trading of others liberty for my own safety, as that's plain foolish.

However, if I wish to purchase high security, lock doors obsessively, drive around my block to make sure I am not followed home (I do all of those things), then that is my compromise. I pay a certain price for all of that, and I will not be lectured by philosophers that I "deserve neither safety nor liberty" for those habits.

191 posted on 06/01/2006 1:39:27 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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