[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:37:58 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/27/2005 3:07:48 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
>
> Mike Geary wrote:
>
> "There's no absolute inalienable right."
>
> Fine. No problem here. Why not drop the inalienable bit? In fact why
not
> drop the whole rights talk? Just talk about what the government does and
> what we want the government to do.
>
>
A.A. Let the non-philosopher give this a try. If we don't have a
foundation on which to rest our desires for government, then we will have
micromanaged ourselves to death. The Constitution has been as successful
as it has been precisely because it is based on philosophy that concerns
itself with man's role in government and government's obligation to man.
We were fortunate, even blessed, to have had the framers that we had, who
carried out of the Enlightenment an intuitive sense of the spirituality, as
it were, of government.
I agree too with Mike that mankind without society is not how life on earth
is lived. Like it or not, we are herd animals.
Andy Amago
> Sincerely,
>
> Phil Enns
> Toronto, ON
>
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