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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian

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To: Lane3 who wrote (8187)7/7/2000 11:04:30 AM
From: Machaon  Read Replies (2) of 9127
 
<< ... you are free to make a risky choice with potentially horrid consequences. >>

You are using the word "free" instead of the word "able". Freedom has a certain, honored meaning that many have died for.

===> Freedom: 1. the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

2. immunity from an obligation or duty <===

You trivialize the word free, by playing word games.

<< This is a largely academic distinction ... >>

I would hope that they are not teaching your concept of freedom in schools.

<< ... and we've already more than beaten it to death. >>

Not only beaten, but tortured! <g>
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