To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Seriously though, excessive, radical individualism is as dangerous to our liberties as excessive government.
Nonsense!
You can fight an individual who treads on your liberty.
You can't fight government.
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5 posted on
03/20/2007 10:51:48 AM PDT by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: mugs99
Nonsense! You can fight an individual who treads on your liberty. You can't fight government. Oh really, and how are you going to do that? If your neighbour is doing something like trashing up your yard, etc. and refuses to stop despite being asked to, what are you going to do, shoot him? Or start a feud by returning it in kind to him? THAT'S the nonsense.
That's what the commonwealth is for - to arbitrate between individual citizens, instead of forcing them to return back to the "might makes right" state of nature.
To: mugs99
Exactly. An intrusive neighbor is a peer. Intrusive government is a master.
10 posted on
03/20/2007 11:26:20 AM PDT by
CGTRWK
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