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To: ArGee
The purpose of human life is to manifest the glory of God. To do this, we must be free. Therefore, the essential purpose of government is to maximize freedom and to protect the individuals' rights to pursue their own good in their own way.
266 posted on 05/12/2003 9:13:48 AM PDT by Nikhil Iyengar
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To: Nikhil Iyengar
I presume you have Scriptural support (from whatever religion you take this from) for your position?

Shalom.

271 posted on 05/12/2003 9:58:00 AM PDT by ArGee (I did not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man... - Gandalf)
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To: Nikhil Iyengar

As it says in the DOI: " ... inalienable rights, among which are an early death, slavery to vice, and the pursuit of unneeded suffering."

Using this political fantasy that laws somehow rob people of their free will, here is your argument brought to its logical conclusion: "Laws against bank-robbery rob would-be bank robbers of their free will choice of whether to rob or not. They are just zombies without any self-control or personal responsibility in the matter."


308 posted on 05/12/2003 4:45:34 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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