 Folder > Freedom & ResponsibilityWhere shall we draw the line between our freedom and the freedom of others? Is it harm, action, thought, or circumstance?
Owned by Unordained - Created on 12/15/2003 - Last edited on 11/01/2005 03/06/12 :: Article :: Carving out a Contraceptive Caveat for Catholics :: Affordable Care Act, Catholic Universities and Hospitals, Contraceptive and Abortifacient agents  03/13/11 :: Reference :: (link) :: See? What did I tell you about us doing this to ourselves?03/13/11 :: Message :: Marriage and Equal Rights07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 02/07/08 :: Quote :: C.P. SnowWhen you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. 10/31/07 :: Article :: On education :: Teaching, testing, certifying09/04/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: The God Fuse08/26/07 :: Article :: Support the troops! :: Opposing a war is more difficult than it sounds06/03/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Papers portray Plot as more Talk than Action02/10/07 :: Quote :: Sir Francis BaconSilence is the virtue of fools. 12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics08/22/06 :: Quote :: John Stuart MillIf mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. 08/12/06 :: Article :: Lolicon lovers: a threat to society? a threat to anime? :: This whole debate puts the LOL in loli.08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan responds to responses on lolicon05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry [disputed]Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry [disputed]I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawLiberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: John F. KennedyLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: AristotleA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Victor HugoWhen dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryGuard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Woodrow WilsonLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 05/12/06 :: Quote :: Samuel AdamsIf ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. 01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot)01/06/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'?11/16/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court JusticeThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice11/01/05 :: Folder :: Concepts10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 10/03/05 :: Quote :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonThe care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. 06/28/05 :: Article :: Skepticism :: 06/22/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Dangers of Safety06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herberthe fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...] 06/09/05 :: Quote :: Frederick DouglassIf there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggl [...] 02/14/05 :: Article :: Inchoate :: That which is not yet done, is not yet done.01/28/05 :: Quote :: Frederick DouglassNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. 01/26/05 :: Article :: Second Amendment :: (to the constitution of the United States of America, that is)01/09/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Law as parent11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass07/12/04 :: File :: A talk about chastity with high-schoolers :: Real-Media audio07/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The morality police 06/29/04 :: Article :: Freedom and Authority :: Shedding light on America's political system04/13/04 :: Article :: Justice, law, morality, ethics :: What would you like?04/08/04 :: Article :: Consent & Ethics :: Yes, I'm telling you not to tell me what to do. Got a problem with that?04/07/04 :: Article :: Moral Authority? :: 03/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S.-Sponsored Regime Change in Haiti03/02/04 :: Article :: Equal opportunity :: Maybe we shouldn't always spell things out03/02/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Civil Rights Act of 196403/02/04 :: Article :: Anti-discrimination and the Church :: Should you be worried about gay marriage because your church doesn't want to officiate such things?02/18/04 :: Article :: Consent :: This is going to get nasty.02/16/04 :: Article :: Memogate :: Ready the black helicopters02/12/04 :: Article :: Boobygate :: New and improved! Now easier to skim and ignore!!02/12/04 :: Article :: Baring it all :: Do we have to go there?02/02/04 :: Article :: CBS is being mean to me! :: MoveOn.org's "Child Play" ad is being refused -- oh no!02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Privacy and Deviance01/25/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Can competitive law work?12/15/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Criminalizing Motherhood11/26/03 :: Folder :: Terrorism11/21/03 :: Article :: Hindsight is always 20/20 :: Why buy an ounce of prevention when your children can buy a pound of cure?09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Richard Kerry (R-Florida)I think that the free-enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Arthur C. ClarkeYou can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Demonax, Roman philosopher circa 150 A.D.Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. 07/29/03 :: Article :: Hate mail? :: Taking a look at how people respond to sarcasm |
