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To: newgeezer

Control over the livelihood of another IS restriction. It is a tremendous amount of arbitrary power. Society demands that this arbitrary power be exercised only within carefully circumscribed limits because it is the function and purpose of the law to protect the weak against the bullying of arbitrary power.

You babble about the Founding Fathers. Well, they lived in an age when physical violence was part of every authority relationship. Parents beat their children. Husbands beat their wives. Teachers whipped their pupils. Ships captains flogged their sailors. Masters beat their slaves. Conscripts ran the gauntlet. Master craftsmen beat their apprentices. I suppose that is what you would like to go back to in the name of private property rights. Well, we've moved beyond that. We have as a society and a culture rejected arbitrary authority in practically every sphere of life. And we are better off for it.

Does this mean government setting limits on private property rights ? Yes in every case.

Good.


40 posted on 07/20/2005 10:20:16 AM PDT by Sam the Sham
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To: Sam the Sham

You sure seem angry about something. Maybe you need a break.


41 posted on 07/20/2005 10:24:51 AM PDT by newgeezer (Admit it. Amendment XIX is very much to blame.)
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