Sure Arlo. People thought of natural rights - well - naturally. Plain and simple. But if you want to test them and try to murder and steal I've got something here with your name on it.
Nick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arlo Bensinger" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Coerce me? How? > Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:26:30 -0400 > > > [Platt] > Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 > > [Arlo] > So spaketh slave owners and protagonists of genocide against the > indigenous peoples. If they wrote "leprechauns exist", I suppose > you'd believe in them. > > "And yet, although Jefferson called this doctrine of social > equality "self-evident," it is not at all self-evident. Scientific > evidence and the social evidence of history indicate the opposite > is self-evident. There is no "self-evidence" in European history > that all men are created equal. There's no nation in Europe that > doesn't trace its history to a time when it was "self-evident" that > all men are created unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is > sometimes given credit for this doctrine, certainly didn't get it > from the history of Europe or Asia or Africa. He got it from the > impact of the New World upon Europe and from contemplation of one > particular kind of individual who lived in the New World, the > person he called the "Noble Savage." (Pirsig) > > He got it from CONTEMPLATION. It's an intellectual pattern. And > these derive from culture. > > Plain and simple. > > 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/ > -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com 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/
