:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 ::

Ther is a fine discussion of principle and truth presented by Alan W. Bock over at the OC Register. This is just a taste; go read it all.

I assume, for example, that people are created equal - not in the sense that they all have the same color hair or the same abilities or potential, but in the sense that none is entitled to special privileges, whether bestowed as a result of skin color, ethnic origin, sex or political influence. Equal in the eyes of God and (ideally) in the eyes of government. From that fundamental principle, it seems to me, one can derive the idea that (as Jefferson put it again) some are not born with saddles while others are born with boots and spurs, destined to rule the hoi polloi, and most of the other ideas that lead to the conclusion that a society in which people are free to make their own decisions about their own lives is preferable to any other.

:: Mark 12:07 PM [+] ::
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