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To: gcruse
Only a complete dunce would see the quote as the "total suspension of individual liberty", as you put it. Rather, it is a primordial understanding that there is a social contract that exists between people, and that contract is based on morality not coercion. Thus, I am no more free to do as I will with my person or my property than you are, or that anyone has been since time began.
49 posted on 07/02/2003 4:28:07 PM PDT by gaspar
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To: gaspar
Only a complete dunce would see the quote as the "total suspension of individual liberty", as you put it.

You said it yourself.  "You are not free to do with yourself as you choose."
What else do you call yielding up your autonomy?
50 posted on 07/02/2003 5:13:26 PM PDT by gcruse (There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women[.] --Margaret Thatcher)
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