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Re: National vote on handguns?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:39:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > Ancient Greece. Good example of the tyrany of the majority. I'm with you
> > on this one.
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> "The Law" by Frederick Bastiat also covers some of this. For the full text
> of this AMAZINGLY concise and excellent work, see:
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> http://lexrex.com/informed/otherdocuments/thelaw/thelaw.htm
Thanks for that cite! Bookmarked it... I read _The Law_ long ago but it's
good to know of an electronic source. Bastiat is cited by a lot of other
freedom thinkers.
One issue that some will have is that his derivation of *why* people have
the rights they do is pretty weak. I know it always comes up here if you
just more or less take it as an assumption. I think people DO have these
rights but have not yet been able to satisfactorily demonstrate it.
++Lar
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| (...) Well, every argument can be beaten down to some foundational principle that is a mere assertion that some may not agree with. I am not sure I have ever seen a philosophical argument that didn't ultimately break down that way. I'd be well (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) "The Law" by Frederick Bastiat also covers some of this. For the full text of this AMAZINGLY concise and excellent work, see: (URL) I am sorry to go all "Scott Arthur" on y'all, but some of you really should read some of the primary texts (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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