To: betty boop; Tennessean4Bush
the "Rousseau-like 'natural' state of freedom from all laws and all bonds of mutual obligation": Even animals don't live that way.
Quite so, boop. Not at all what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they spoke of Man living in a state of nature. Nor did they believe that liberty could be found in liberating Man from God or from His divine order.
A splendid article, boop. Thanks for the beep.
55 posted on
09/08/2008 3:36:02 PM PDT by
YHAOS
To: YHAOS; betty boop; Tennessean4Bush; ModelBreaker
Do bathhouse socialists really read Rousseau? Obama's taxation policy would not restore a "state of nature." Nor would the population control ideas of the feminist Left. Some of their ideas flirt with primitivism. But they want to control and manipulate nature, not free it up.
The resentment directed at the Palin family may have to do with it reflecting more of the natural order of things - i.e., offspring. A strange notion for many liberals.
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