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To: tpaine
The "unalienable right to life" is foundational to all federal law, and indeed to all American law -- federal, state or local. It is, says the Declaration, foundational to all government power whatsoever. Legal suicide, and particular the granting of power over one's life to another, is the alienation of one's right to life. "Unalienable" rights are rights that cannot be given away, and the exercise of which is not voluntary, but obligatory. The origin of the notion is in "unalienable" ownership of land -- land which the owner could not part with, whatever his wish to. What part of "unalienable right to life" don't you understand?

If you find this to be "bafflegab" as well, let's just call it a day, and I wish you well.

222 posted on 04/28/2002 1:10:58 PM PDT by davidjquackenbush
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To: davidjquackenbush
The "unalienable right to life" is foundational to all federal law, and indeed to all American law -- federal, state or local. It is, says the Declaration, foundational to all government power whatsoever.

--- We agree! -- My life is mine to do with as I please, within the constitutional limits I agreed to as a citzen. I gave no government the power to tell me when, or how I could end my life, nor did my forefathers, the framers of the constitution.

Legal suicide, and particular the granting of power over one's life to another, is the alienation of one's right to life.

-- To whom is the life 'given'? Granting a doctor the legal power to assist me in my own death gives him no life. - Or any right to 'life' except for his own. -- You are simply attempting to cloak your religious opinion about suicide in legalistic language.

And, in fact, -- you can grant your life to save others, or your country, -- Many do in war. Others in peace. -- We call em heros.

"Unalienable" rights are rights that cannot be given away, and the exercise of which is not voluntary, but obligatory. The origin of the notion is in "unalienable" ownership of land -- land which the owner could not part with, whatever his wish to. What part of "unalienable right to life" don't you understand? If you find this to be "bafflegab" as well, let's just call it a day, and I wish you well.

I think I understand my rights, and have demonstrated that fact here. You have demonstrated a gift for gab, little else, --- save for a seeming desire to have government law control the 'moral' actions of your peers. -- Can you say this isn't so?

223 posted on 04/28/2002 5:03:24 PM PDT by tpaine
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