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To: Hodar

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”

— George Washington


155 posted on 06/06/2011 9:26:56 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some of us still 'hold these truths to be self-evident'..Enough to save the country? Time will tell.)
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To: EternalVigilance
You mean, like arbitrarily deciding that YOUR values on somone's life supercede the decisions a person makes with their life.

op·press   /əˈprɛs/
–verb (used with object)
1. to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
2. to lie heavily upon (the mind, a person, etc.): Care and sorrow oppressed them.
3. to weigh down, as sleep or weariness does.

Who made you King for a day? Why do you get to decide what other people do? How about you manage YOUR life, and let the rest of us manage ours? I think you have a pretty full plate just keeping track of your own business.

This falls onto the concept of:

lib·er·ty   /ˈlɪbərti/ <–noun, plural -ties.
1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
3. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.

I reserve the right to make my own decisions. Some will be mistakes, but they are MINE ...no matter how stupid, immoral or selfish. This is my right, and you have no right to impose on them. God will judge me; not you.

156 posted on 06/06/2011 9:48:58 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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