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To: EternalVigilance

It's about the true starting point of moral deliberation — the principles of moral judgment, the standards, ideas and ideals of what is to be praised, what is to be blamed, what is to be honored, what is to be condemned.

Initiation of force, threat of force and fraud to be condemned. Initiation of force is the denial of reason. First, the criminal initiating force denies his own ability to reason, and secondly, it denies the victim his ability to reason. 

5 posted on 07/20/2007 8:44:15 PM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Zon
Initiation of force, threat of force and fraud to be condemned. Initiation of force is the denial of reason. First, the criminal initiating force denies his own ability to reason, and secondly, it denies the victim his ability to reason.

Can you explain clearly how that bit of libertarian boilerplate has anything to do with the Keyes paragraph you quoted?

8 posted on 07/20/2007 8:59:27 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats??)
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