> Ham wrote > I submit, instead, that the surrender of individual > freedom corrupts human value. When we yield to third party > authorities, we > diminish the value of our freedom. And by not accepting the > responsibility > to act on our own authority, we deny our autonomy as free agents of > value. > Failure to value and preserve our freedom will eventually reduce us > to vassals of the state.
MP: And what about societal freedom? R v. W, not for its specifics, but for the process and over-reaching by the Judicial that it represents does EXACTLY what you describe on a societal level. I am not directly disagreeing with the specific *results* of R v. W (at least at its initial ruling.) I am simply adamantly opposed to the means by which R v. W and the court which produced it reached those results, and for the impact that has had on our societal freedom of self government. R v. W represents the surrender of societal freedom corrupting societal value. By yielding to the third party authority of the court for the specifics we diminish the value of our democratic legislative freedom. By not accepting the responsibility to act on our own authority and craft reasonable legislation on abortion we deny our autonomy as free agents of societal value. Failure to value and preserve our legislative freedom will eventually reduce us to vassals of the tyranny of the court. Does my position make more sense that way? MP ---- "Don't believe everything you think." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
