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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (60585)	9/23/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Merely because I am dying gives me no legal or moral authority to overturn the law of an entire nation merely to prolong my life. Would you have told that to the Jews in Nazi Germany? Adhering to legal and moral authority presupposes that the authority in question is indeed legal and moral. Even so, things being as they are, I could survive and feed my family sufficiently without any money whatever. A lifestyle choice here, a necessity in many parts of the world. Now then I have no right to illegally break into your home to live indefinitely in your garage to eat whatever I might find there simply because I am cold, hungry and dying. I certainly have no right to demand you extend to my children and me food, medical care and education, this, from your own resources. In all cases I should ask you if I might live in your garage. A Randian perspective, indeed. :-) And you know that I won't argue to the contrary. (LOL) Principles are very important to me, as I know they are to you (though we may differ on their content), but I'll admit that if I, or my loved ones, were starving to death, I'm not sure at what point I'd place principle before survival (ie. stealing food). And, unless and until they've been at that point, most honest people would probably admit to the same. -JB