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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (80719)	6/17/2004 7:38:31 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I stand on the soundness of my argument. It is reflective or liberty and a just society. The rights of the one or the few are never subordinate to the many. If you think they are then you very simply have a corrupted understanding of human nature. "...you do not nor does the government have the natural right or the power to force me to serve someone or do anything to another person in a way that violates my conscience."

To: Solon who wrote (80719)	2/4/2009 12:41:07 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think less wins this one hands down. Do you remember when Spock in The Wrath of Khan goes down to Engineering. He is about to enter the reactor room when McCoy stops him, saying "No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!" Spock replies that McCoy himself knows he isn't human; he then distracts McCoy and nerve-pinches him, apologizing that he has "no time to discuss this logically." Spock enters the room and successfully makes repairs amidst heavy radiation streams. On the bridge, a cadet notices the mains are back on line. The warp engines are engaged, and they narrowly escape the gigantic blast. As he was dying... Spock: The needs of the many... outweigh - Kirk: The needs of the few. Spock: Or the one. Spock knew everybody on the Enterprise would have died anyway so his action, sacrifice was not really a heroic effort it was just a job well done and his name will live a long time in Star Federation memories. Remember this the next time you are on a plane being hijacked. Still... "..when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." AYN RAND youtube.com