[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:48:49 -0500
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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