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To: SlowBoat407

Cute.

I will say that she did a great job of showing the danger of the state as god or the lack of individualism and freedom of people.

Very well done.

But, ultimately, her ideas do way more bad than good.


53 posted on 02/06/2007 8:33:21 AM PST by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas; Larry Lucido
But, ultimately, her ideas do way more bad than good.

I think that depends on who's reading them. I was pretty much soured on religion before I read AS, but I saw in it a responsibility to act with integrity and courage. I did not see it as a license to do whaterver pleased me - she addresses that failing as well.

There are others who will read it and turn it into an authorization for anarchy. That was never her intent. In fact, she has publicly decried those who use her work as an excuse to live on their whims and ignore ethics and morality.

55 posted on 02/06/2007 9:38:34 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (A living insult to islam since 1959)
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To: rwfromkansas
I will say that she did a great job of showing the danger of the state as god or the lack of individualism and freedom of people.

AS started me on the road out of the idolatry of statism. Another helpful books was Ken Kerns' The Owner-Builder and the Code.

63 posted on 02/08/2007 3:00:41 PM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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