On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:29:33 -0600, lib_duster <clea...@libs.out>
wrote:
>On 8/28/2012 6:20 PM, mr_antone wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:19:48 -0600, lib_duster<clea...@libs.out>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/28/2012 4:55 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in news:19ednReSsdjzq6DNnZ2dnUVZ5t-
>>>>
dn...@giganews.com:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>
news:BpOdnXUeJeaWsaDN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/28/2012 1:35 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>>>
news:9vCdnWGAuIxETKHN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 8/28/2012 5:55 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>
news:XZCdndc4fob5saHN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/27/2012 6:57 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>
news:Y_ydnTl8is8ZYKbN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/27/2012 3:54 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
news:6_ednephRcuOf6bN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/25/2012 1:21 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
news:I5CdnRk3Iq30t6TN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/25/2012 10:50 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
news:bfOdndjM55qsbqXN...@giganews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/25/2012 8:39 AM, William December Starr wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In article
>>>>>> <
y5ydncP785EtH6rN...@giganews.com>,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Delvin Benet<DB@nbc.nýt> said:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Loosely speaking -- which is the only way to talk
>>>>>> about
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> groupings that include tens of millions of people --
>>>>>>>>>>>> liberals
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> believe that people shouldn't have the _option_ of
>>>>>> being
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> selfish, while conservatives do.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The conservatives are correct, and the liberals are
>>>>>>>> wrong.
>>>>>>>>>>>> To
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> say that people shouldn't have the option of choosing
>>>>>> how
>>>>>>>>>>>> much
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to donate to charity is to be totalitarian.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I didn't say "to a charity."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Of course you didn't - you're totalitarian,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No I'm not.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! Of *course* you are! What an absurd and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pointless denial you just attempted!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and you want the money to be *taken*, not donated.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I want everyone to be required to make an equitable
>>>>>>>>>> contribution
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to the common good.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You're a totalitarian. "Required" - that's
>>>>>> totalitarianism.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There is no such thing as "the common good." The
>>>>>>>> confiscations
>>>>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not "contributions" - that you are advocating (because
>>>>>> you're
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> totalitarian) are not for any "common good" at all;
>>>> they're
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> redistribute wealth to people you declare to be
>>>> deserving.
>>>>>>>>>> Your
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> declaration is based on totalitarian thought.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Leftists are totalitarian.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, you just see the world in intense black and white.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I see totalitarian leftists like you for what you are.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The fact that you think you see something apparently has
>>>>>>>> very
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> little to do with whether it actually exists.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You are a totalitarian statist - not in rational dispute.
>>>>>>>> You
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> confiscate value from people in order to serve a
>>>>>> totalitarian
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ideal.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What rights do what people have to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> things of value, and who determines
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> those rights?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> People have complete and exclusive property rights to
>>>> things
>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> value they produce or acquire through voluntary exchange.
>>>> No
>>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "determines"those rights - no rights are societally
>>>>>> determined.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Really? Society doesn't determine rights thru
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> copyrights, patents, titles, trademarks, not to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mention the courts?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Those are recognitions of rights. They are not the conferral
>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> therights.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Who does the conferral of said rights?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> No one. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of rights
>>>>>>>>>> theory
>>>>>>>>>>>>> knows this.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> con·ferredcon·fer·ring
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The dictionary will not help you.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Then where do they come from?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Nowhere. They inhere in people.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Prove it.
>>>>
>>> The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
>>>
>>> "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people
>>> to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another
>>> and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
>>> station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a
>>> decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
>>> declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
>>>
>>> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
>>> that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
>>> that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That
>>> to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
>>> their just powers from the consent of the governed,"
>>
>> The death penalty, life imprisonment, laws against polygamy(for
>> example) are constitutional limits to those "unalienable" rights.
>>
>> Got any other "unalienable" rights laying around?
>>
>>
>> mr_antone
>
>The basic rights remain, what man does to relinquish them is between man
>and his government.
Yet your proof is a government document. Go figure.
Do you believe this document applies to the rest of the world?
>
>You're not very smart mr_antone, even for a hairdresser...
List a few more of these "unalienable" rights.
mr_antone