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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3185)	10/19/2000 4:42:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

This "great nation" has done all those things those countries are guilty of when it saw fit and conveniently forgets as soon as convenient. The US government has commited evil acts, but not on the scale of say Stalin. In any case if the US government was just as evil as Stalin's government then it would just be another example that you could throw in to my question. The very fact that you can put the US into a fundamentally different category shows the success of this propaganda. I did not put the US in to a fundimentally different category in the post you replied to. I would put them in a different category, but it wasn't at issue in that post. I was talking about natural rights not the actions of the US government. I think it is okay to question these words and truth of the Founding Fathers words. My belief in natural rights is not based on the constitution. Constitutional rights (a specific form of legal rights) are based on and created by the constitution but not natural rights exist independently of it. Asserting a true natural right is stating a belief in an absolute moral truth. Those who believe that all moral ideas have only relative truth, and that there are no moral absolutes would obviously not support the concept of natural rights. Tim