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Originally posted by Spanky
If I may, here is a small fragment of it:
"All men are created equal and they are endowed by their creator with certain inalieable rights, among these being life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
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Lovely rhetoric, but didn't we then go gladly into war, killing in order to secure these "inalienable" rights?
Note that I don't oppose the principals you espouse. I'm simply arguing that we have never in the entire history of humanity lived by them. Therefore, since society cannot be based upon these absolutes and ideals, human interaction is by necessity a matter of finding the relative balance between competing rights.
