On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:13 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is obviously a matter of opinion. I think personally it's selfish as >> hell not to do service work. >> > > Agreed, but that is a bit different from saying that the government should > FORCE you to do it. > > Isn't it every American's right to be selfish? Doesn't at least part of our > greatness derive from the fact that the majority of us appreciate our > freedoms and choose to serve our country...voluntarily?
I don't know that this is true. As I said earlier, the vast majority of American's are American's by accident of birth. They didn't *do* anything to become an American. I'm fine with that in the broad sense, I'm going to say that we should make all citizenship conditional and that you have to apply for it as an adult. But I also think that it means that we, as a country, have a quite reasonable right to expect a measure of commitment to the country, to ask for service to the country as part of the bargain you get by winning the lottery and being born American. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:279632 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
