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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:59:07 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
> which I shan't bother to refute till you've reviewed the posts in the
> past that deal with it and tried to refute THEM. Merely asserting that
> the moon is made of green cheese doesn't actually make it so, you know.

Fair enough -- I admit to joining the debate in progress. There's several
thousand posts in this newsgroup; discussing them all becomes an
ever-increasing burden to entry. Could you point me to several in particular
that you'd like me to discuss?

> > [1] Note that Jefferson disagrees with Locke and Larry about the property
> > thing. *grin*
> Citation please? Even Jefferson can be wrong once in a while... he

I'm just remarking that Jefferson has changed Locke's "life, liberty,
and estate" to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Not
necessarily a representation of Jefferson's beliefs as a whole, but a very
interesting change, don't you think?


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