Which Do You More Believe?

[Uncle Joe]

* We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (people) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

I spelled the entirety of the second selection out as there was no room to do it on the poll question.

[Rambis]

1. I prefer Freedom isn't free pay your taxes!

I say that to a particular in law quite a bit.

[JuniperLea]

2. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...

I wonder if Janis was right.

[snot]

3. Freedom isn't free --

Too many of us slept on ours for decades, while our rights and ability to defend them from oligarchs have been vitiated.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Maybe, it's the oligarchs/oligarchy that isn't free. n/t

[snot]

8. Correct. Let's free 'em!

[Occam Bandage]

5. I agree. No more liberty-infringing prisons. The Declaration doesn't say,

"certain rights alienable only through violation of certain statutes." And I'm sick of all this infringing on my pursuit of happiness. Public indecency makes me happy. I intend to pursue it. Laws are made by man and enforced by man, whereas my inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness comes from my Creator.

In case it isn't clear, I think both statements are either absurd or meaningless on a literal level, but that both have important cultural meaning, and reflect important cultural values.

[Shiver]

6. "Freedom isn't free...

it costs a hefty fuckin' fee... and if you don't pay your buck 'o five who willlllll?"



...I am so very, very sorry for that... :hide:

[anonymous171]

7. Americans should believe in the natural rights of man.

That is, after all, what our country was founded on.