RE: About "rights" again

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 20:20:54 MST


Lee Corbin wrote:

> gts wrote
>
>> "Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into
>> the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty
>> of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called
>> personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because
>> necessary for his own sustenance."
>> --Thomas Jefferson: Legal Argument, 1770. FE 1:376
 
> Thanks for that! It perfectly illustrates the error unmistakably.

You're quite welcome, Lee.

I think however that the passage above illustrates your error rather
than Thomas Jefferson's.

Excuse me for standing up for one of our most famous presidents in
history, but I think your assertion in opposition to Jefferson's is only
more evidence of your intellectual hubris.

-gts



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