To: Lorianne
To live in society means giving up some of your freedoms. Living in society does not mean giving up freedoms at all. It means ceding the power to secure your rights, including freedom, to government. That which you cite as the yielding up of freedoms is actually you violating the rights of others in the first place.
18 posted on
05/27/2003 1:08:32 PM PDT by
laredo44
To: laredo44
Then lets eliminate all laws?
What about the right of people to govern themselves. An example of this is a community's right to set their own obscenity laws and keep out adult businesses. Smoking laws seem to me to be the same thing. If a community wants to make anti-smoking laws, they should be able to do that just as much as they can set their own speed limits, and other community standards.
22 posted on
05/27/2003 1:16:40 PM PDT by
Lorianne
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