Janice:
>>Utterly perverse rubbish. Go read the Constitution: it says that "the pursuit of happiness" is one of man's inalienable rights, not his "highest purpose".<<
Man's highest purpose is his own happiness, not the happiness of others. No one can live anothers live for him, nor should he volunteer to try, nor should he be forced to do it. To do so is immoral.
There is nothing wrong with charity, but it is not Man's highest purpose nor a great moral good. "Enforced" charity is, in fact, a great evil.
>>I find your own "alternatives" rather perplexing. Why must one choose between, say, Thomas Edison and Franklin Roosevelt?<<
Thomas Edison was a fierce individualist, independent, focused, a Creator. Franklin Roosevelt, was a man cut from the same socialist-collectivist cloth as Hitler and Stalin, varied only in degree and how much he could get away with. His New Deal has hurt America for almost 60 years -- along with Kennedy's, Johnson's, Nixon's, Carter's, Bush's and Clinton's twisted statist ideas of Americanism, and the impeachable offenses to the Constitution they swore to uphold. Behind their rhetoric was anti-Americanism (Americanism being defined by men such as Jefferson, Payne, Locke and Gallatin).
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