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You know, I was just reading George Washington's farewell address and Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural address and it struck me that the quality of language they employed was just so much higher than that of today. They really studied and invested in a command of the English language. Their speeches were elegant and sophisticated - a far cry from the political sophistry so many employ today. I think the loss of that richness in common speech and understanding is one of the signs of a society which has allowed technology to supplant critical thinking.
I just put in a phone call to Emily Sissell. She is named as the contact for more info regarding the formation of this committee. I left a message. "I'd like to participate in this endeavor"
What are you going to do?
The false alternative will not be rationally discussed in a government-appointed "committee". We can expect more false alternatives combined with political pandering.
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Oh, yeah, and Trump's a racist, by the way. A racist! Racist! RACIST!
Yeah, dem dim Dems really got to paint the hated Donald to look really bad if Creepy Joe or another candidate from that gallery of Jackass Party twits can have any hope come 2020.
Redirecting at crazy stuff, distracts the public from reality and though. Go home, plug in to the TV and be instructed...
(Putting on my cynic hat.)
So much of what the dems/libs/progs think are good ideas are NEVER intended to succeed.
For example, I can't believe there are still people who truly believe that ObummerCare was actually designed to make our lives better.
I have believed from Day 1 that the ACA was meant to do one thing only: Crash the entire healthcare system and throw it into total chaos. The government then steps in and offers a solution--what they've been dying to implement for decades--Single Payer.
They manufacture the healthcare and insurance crisis, then just like the ACA, they shove Single Payer up our collective backsides.
So yeah, they do live for chaos so they can impose their solutions on us.
http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/0...
Ayn Rand used "in" except when quoting the Declaration, reflecting a use of modern spelling.
A government-appointed advisory committee won't resolve this, either.
The question of renouncing rights can only arise in terms of legal rights -- civil rights encoded in law to implement natural rights and government procedures to protect rights (or improperly violate them as now happens all the time). For example, you can make contract agreements limiting your future actions, which are enforceable, or you can waive a right like a civil right to representation by a lawyer. Such decisions may be sensible or not, but they don't negate philosophical rights.
An extreme case like agreeing to subject oneself to permanent indentured servitude is dubious, and would be governed under what is properly enforceable contract law as for what is consistent with principles of natural rights.
That kind of choice pertains to normally functioning people. If someone commits a crime then laws may properly incarcerate him for the sake of protecting the rights of the innocent. If done properly that is consistent with the moral principles giving rise to rights, which are moral principles in a social context (Rights are not the starting point.)
The only way someone can choose to literally wipe out his philosophical rights is to commit suicide so he is no longer an entity to which rights apply.
“creating new rights based on membership in special identity groups corrodes principles of equality and universality.”
There should be an end to the excesses that don't seem to stop by the left.
Of course they are howling because it threatens the very foundation they built over time toward only one goal: to control.