Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:34:24 -0500 From: steve@trinwords.com (Steve Trinward) Subject: Re: [I-S] (fwd) [lpaz-discuss] Is being left alone enough? (was: Re: Bob Schulz Hunger Strike To: rlroot@prodigy.net (RLRoot) Cc: Individual-Sovereignty@yahoogroups.com, lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com (Arizona) Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
NO argument here ... just the fact that by my observation there are a LOT of people who SEEM to be "perfectly willing to let others define it for them ..."
But when you get them into (even a low-key) discussion, the lights start to brighten ...
- Steve (still finding that half-full glass in suprising places)
RLRoot wrote:
> Trouble is... the vast majority actually believe they do have liberty. And they're
> perfectly willing to let others define it for them (all the while thinking they're
> really just having others define the liberty of others, which they fully endorse).
>
> They simply can't distinguish between liberty and permission.
>
> When you define liberty for someone else, it's no longer liberty. It's permission.
VERY true! We need a bumpersticker with that on it!!
>
>
> ~RR
>
[snip my babbling]
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