Roe v. Wade is history
In Thomas Jefferson's day, guns fired one bullet or shell at a time.
All that it takes sometimes is one bullet. I don’t think that people should be allowed even that.
The world is much different than Jefferson’s time, but even so, Jefferson and his cronies weren’t saints put here by God that had a perfect vision of what government should be like. Even they were off on certain matters. Some of them owned slaves. If they weren’t right about slavery, I don’t know why people think they were right about everything else.
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For instance, even though the U.S. Declaration of Independence says, "All men are created equal", Jefferson & Co. left it up to each individual state to establish its own definition of "men" (e.g., usually wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant Christian males).
I think that’s why I’ve never felt much awe when it comes to the Declaration of Independence. I felt like I was excluded from it.
I don’t really care these days, though. I prefer having more of a worldview than a national one.
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Liberty was one of the most commonly used terms in the Founding generation. When Patrick Henry thundered, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" in 1775, no one had to ask him to define "liberty" following his speech.
Similarly, when the Founders talked about equality, they thought in terms of all men (e.g., wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant Christian males) being equal under God, and of freemen (e.g., males who were not wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, or protestant Christians) being equal under secular Law. But the distinction of freemen was important. The founders believed in a natural hierarchy of talents, and they believed that citizenship and suffrage required civic and moral virtue (e.g., virtues they believed could be found only in wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant Christian males).
Jefferson wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and what never will be." To that end, restricting the status of freemen was essential, in the Founders' view, to the liberty of the republic, which is why some states initially had property qualifications for voting, and why equality did not extend to slaves (or for that matter to women or children).
Most of the Founding generation favored a "natural aristocracy" consisting of men of talent and virtue (e.g., wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant Christian males). They believed that these men -- and ONLY these men -- would be, and should be, the leaders of a free society. Therefore, their idea of society was as follows:
↑ The Aristocracy (the rulers)
↓ Freemen, Merchants, and Craftsmen
↓ Foreigners and Hired Laborers
↓ Slaves and Women
Well as far people going on a sex strike goes, wouldn't that just be making things worse because it limits how my many people will go for a person in the dating market if that person choose to remain abstinent?
It just seems like abstinence gives the competition more of an advantage?
It just seems like abstinence gives the competition more of an advantage?
Sex is not a prize to be won; it is a privilege to be granted.
That's a good point. Well put.
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Clearly we're taking the wrong approach. We just need to frame termination as a stand your ground situation.
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Basically. Ironically the guys who are most invested in that idea are the ones who'd be most impacted by the complete disruption of society that would be required to end up with a scenario where a bunch of militias can defeat their national army.
3% chuds don't generally look fit enough to defeat much except for a 6 pack and a box of twinkies.
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