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To: one_less who wrote (718706)	5/31/2013 2:33:21 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580255

The United States of America was a unique effort, placing the natural rights of human beings at the center and beyond reach of the collective authority. The moment we started defining rights as things which can be given by the power of the state, we began coercing and imposing actions on members of society. Constitutional rights don't absolve one of duties and responsibilities...as in the second amendment for instance...you can own a gun, but there are controls and limits as the SCOTUS has said. Plus you make the statement above and then follow it with this one... We began to compel individuals to act against their own judgement, to force them to turn over wealth and property for things they do not support, to deprive them of property, possessions, and personal values; which was the moment the American system began to decay, along this path America eventually will encounter the failure experienced by its predecessors. Human beings are now simply the means by which government can accomplish its ends. Nothing that we are being compelled to do today violates the primitives of the rights, implied and expressed, in the USofA "unique effort", to use your language. If you disagree, provide some examples for discussion. Al