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To: thefactor

You totally missed the meaning of that quote. You may wish to go to your profile page and re-read it slowly.

“The free man owns himself.” No one else or the government owns a free man. He is free to damage himself, if he so chooses. If he chooses to damage himself, he is a fool and possibly a damns his soul. But if a man does not have the freedom to damage himself, if so wills, then he is not a free man at all.


209 posted on 02/11/2008 9:34:38 PM PST by callisto (CONGRESS.SYS corrupted...Re-boot Washington DC (Y/N)?)
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To: callisto
so government should have zero control over what a "free man" can do?

there is no social contract? come on.

211 posted on 02/11/2008 9:37:53 PM PST by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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