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To: C. Edmund Wright
"Fine. No disagreement. But tell me genius, when all the adults have their money, their time, their property, their freedoms and liberties stripped away from them, JUST WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PROTECT THE UNBORN?????"

You're wearing your argument inside out. The reason the government feels free to strip the money, time and property, etc. from people in the first place, is because the populace as a whole has lost sight of the dignity, sanctity and value of their lives and labor. Persons have allowed the welfare state to undermine their sense of dignity and self-worth to the point they are comfortable letting others pull their weight, and empowering government to let them.

"Without property rights, you can't do a damned thing to protect the unborn."

By your logic, persons without property rights have never accomplished anything. Certainly I'm not advocating the abolition of property rights, and indeed, virtually any imaginable endeavor is more difficult without them, but the reason property rights are eroding in the first place is that persons no longer make the inherent, philosophical connection between their property as the fruit of their labor, which is only possible by virtue of the fact that they have a right to life.

" Yet you simply hide behind your self righteousness and your platitudes and refuse to see the totally unworkablitiy of how you want to fight this fight."

Oh...I'm not hiding, but if a firm belief that the right to life is the very cornerstone of all our God-given rights, makes me "self-righteous," then yes, I'm the most self-righteous son of a bitch you're likely to meet in your (God-given) life.

115 posted on 03/08/2012 9:11:03 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I have no respect for those who substitute self righteousness for wisdom. I much prefer wisdom in the pursuit of true righteousness.

You are the only one wearing out a tired argument. Bye.


118 posted on 03/08/2012 9:15:45 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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