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To: Cultural Jihad
doesn't say that our inalienable rights include "an early death, slavery to vice, and the pursuit of unneeded suffering."

I take it "life" being that my life is my own and should I choose to end it early, that is my choice to make and mine alone. I don't know what you would define "liberty" as, but I define it as self-determination without being beholden to another. As for "pursuit of happiness", one man's vice is another's virtue. If you choose to make these decisions for others, then according to our founding fathers you are usurping God's plan for all humans.

323 posted on 12/30/2003 12:21:50 PM PST by Nanodik (Libertarian, Ex-Canadian)
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To: Nanodik
Ah, the old "laws somehow thwart God's plan of freewill" argument. Supposedly we should legalize bank-robbery, since laws against bank-robbery rob would-be robbers of their freewill choice on whether to rob or not.

If our inalienable rights can be abrogated then they are not really inalienable. We can infringe on our own inalienable rights, but we may not abrogate them.

325 posted on 12/30/2003 12:28:29 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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