On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who will decide what is giving 'back to the country'? That seems like a > never ending debate to begin with. Some owld argue that volunteering at > your church could be 'giving back' whil others would not.
As I said, I do believe that this will be a potentially contentious area. But I think that we can arrive at a broadly agreed set of principles, just like we have to do with every other contentious area. The fundamental idea, however, I think is strong. > Regardless of how much or little time would be invovled, it is still, to me, > a violation of our freedoms to madate that service must be given to anyone > or anything. > > It still infringes on every Americans right to not care, not to get invovled > and not do anything. I'm not sure that we have that right. Where would you say that the right derives from? Is it a fundamental human right or is it a principle laid out in the Constitution? Or just a commonly established custom? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:279660 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
