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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (21559)	7/21/2005 3:39:36 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 28931

"Well, which are which? Where is the line?" Excellent point. This lies at the crux of our discussion. One of the reasons I am interested in discussions such as this is that, I am convinced that confusion about rights is more the rule in American conscious today than is clarity. Without clarity on what is right, we have no hope of unifying our consciousness or bringing lucidity of purpose to our cause of 'liberty and justice for all'. We have become so confused that we now see statements of rights which are not rights at all. Through misguided efforts to alleviate our discomfort with the muck and mire of complaining social authority, we have imposed restrictions on our freedom that seriously impairs our ability to 'secure the blessings of liberty.' You do not have a right, granted by law, to be pleased with everything, although you do have the right to seek happiness. You may get offended, be denied a job, told no by the hag at the bar when it is closing time etc. You do not have the right to be free of harm or the right to harm others. Yet we have enacted laws that infringe upon what is right for one so that we can bring entitlement to another. A law that is right cannot be justified by incorporating that which is not right. This is the result of confusion over the sound reasoning that comes from clarity and adherence to natural law.