The abortion rights and gun control debates are twin aspects of a deeper
question --- does an individual ever have the right to make decisions
that are literally life-or-death? And if not the individual, who does?
-- Eric S. Raymond
question --- does an individual ever have the right to make decisions
that are literally life-or-death? And if not the individual, who does?
-- Eric S. Raymond
Related:
- And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more
because he or she is honest in the small
everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed.... - If a system does not have a payback for a given individual in the information
chain,cthe information will get corrupted at the level of that individual,
and become worse as it travels up the chain.
-- Taber's First Law of Manufacturing Information Systems -- Pat Tabe... - Never trust a man who praises compassion while pointing a gun at you. -- Eric S. Raymond
- Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the
effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the
mercy of the state, unable to resist.
-- Robert Anson Heinlein, 1949... - The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the
people at large or considered as individuals.
.. It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.... - Notice: The individual who dove in to save the revenue collector from the
city park pool wishes to remain anonymous.
As a matter of fact, so does the chap who pushed the collecter into the pond.... - Linux Dominates Academic Research
A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source
Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects.
Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers.... - Liberals never, ever mention individual responsibility!
- Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with
whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state.
A government does not exist to control the citizens....
