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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17870)	7/10/2001 10:15:12 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) of 82486

"They are simply rules that we have invented to govern ourselves. We think that they are the best policies available because we think them most likely to create the sort of society we want to live in. We change these policies regularly, according to our perceptions of their effectiveness. We change them to reflect emerging ideas. Sometimes the emerging ideas don't work, and we change our polices back again. The means by which we choose our policies evolve by the same process. We often disagree. Over many generations we have developed ways to resolve these disagreements peacefully, and to compromise. I'm saying that we don't DISCOVER what is right and what is wrong. We DECIDE what is right and what is wrong." "Of course it's hard to compromise when one guy thinks his idea was revealed by God." And of course it's hard to compromise when one guy thinks his ideas are arrived at by a subjective process that cannot be trusted. #reply-15546197 Your WE is more mythical than any God crackling in the synapses of Greg McRitchie. "At first men were enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. Then he was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled. But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning. What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "WE"."

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