[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:46:49 -0400
You're changing the subject. But, if you want to change the subject to
abortion, what do you think of children who are beaten to death in this
country? Or even just neglected? Does the government play a role in
protecting them? Or can this work be done by charities? I would also
assume that as a libertarian you would support abortion as a right. Is
that correct?
> [Original Message]
> From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/25/2005 8:48:54 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
>
> On May 24, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
>
> > *We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
> > equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
> > Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of =20
> > Happiness=85
> > [Declaration of Independence].
> >
> > There are no footnotes, parenthetical qualifications, or escape =20
> > clauses
> > here. It may be that =91Brian=92 believes that a right to life exists =
> only
> > where there is no threat to life;
>
> We should define this first because I suspect we wouldn't use it in =20
> the same way. This clause is about moral ownership. That we are =20
> created (life) and free (liberty) to pursue our lives as we see fit; =20
> that no one can lay moral claim to these things because they are not =20
> given of the state, as a privilege of government, but of the Creator =20
> of us all, thereby inalienable (absolute). Given the way you are =20
> using it, what do you think of abortion vis a vis your interpretation?
>
> Brian
> Birmingham=
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