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To: Solon who wrote (2923)10/21/2002 6:54:53 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7689
 
What are we not "required" to do to some extent? breathing? putting on our pants to go outdoors in public? not putting on clothes at a nudist camp? We do what is required of us by our own values--taking into account the influences in our environment of people and things. If one is to salvage any sort of meaningful distinction in language, then a generalizing comment which considers "everything" required as being NOT voluntary...cannot be regarded as terribly useful or condign.

Yes in a sense breathing is voluntary. (at least until you pass out, but you could just kill yourself and stop breathing forever). But I think few people would agree that breathing is voluntary. Voluntary does not only mean that there was free will involved. It has another definition which is uncoerced.

This sounds like a de facto "deal"--like an
"agreement"--to me.

I will have made an agreement when I actually agree. Not when some person or some political philosophy assumes that I have agreed.

There will always be people to make such claims REGARDLESS of the actual percentage being taken. As you know, people are organized into various groups for the purpose of seeing their own opinions being translated into laws. And I doubt that any single solitary person will ever believe that the law has got it absolutely RIGHT.

The fact that the law is not and has not been and probably can not be perfect is not a reason to not say that the law is wrong where it is wrong. I didn't say anything about going outside the constitutional framework or even about working within the framework to change. I merely said that high tax rates are wrong.

Tim
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