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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread
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To: Neocon who wrote (1000)6/24/2004 7:43:59 PM
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I am attempting to get to the bottom of this freedom and justice business, on the individual level as well as the societal.

Call me a libertine if you like but for the moment I would like (respectfully) to suspend the constitutional guides that define our freedom so that we can explore more abstractly the attributes of a just coexistence.

The librae of justice contain freedom of conscience, personal liberty, and the right to be treated justly by others. There is no contradiction in terms here and there is no circumstance where one natural right needs to be trumped by any other or consequated by another; since they are not separated entities but terms that are enmeshed with one another to form a concept. When you understand this you will be able to perceive a system of natural justice for all that can be supported by societal laws which never violate any of these three components of freedom...."

This balanced view incorporates both the rights and responsibilities of the one and the many.

Whenever you construct societal laws which encumber one member to provide a shield of opportunity to another you create a quagmire of litigious contention that mires in irresolvable conflicts. This is what we have in our current culture of societal co-existence. It appears to me that we are at a point in our social evolution where we should be ready to move beyond that with liberty and justice for all.
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