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Religious Liberty?
RE: Religious Liberty?
(February 18, 2016 at 10:18 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Equality and fairness mean different things to different people. I think of fairness in terms of justice, not wealth, and equality as being treated equality before for the law regardless of class or position. All agree that power and money tip the balance in favor of those with influence and good lawyers. If not for her political prominence Hilllary Clinton would have been in jail long ago and the Kelo decision would have gone the other way, protecting the property rights of regular folks against rich developers. But others think fairness and equality are about the allocation of resources so that everyone has roughly the same amount of personal wealth. I don't think anyone has come up with a way to do this without using coercive force and curtailing freedoms to undermine property rights. Many, like me, see a clear link between property rights and freedom of conscience.

Liberty does not distinguish between rich and poor. To arbitrarily take away the property rights of anyone, rich or poor, is neither fair nor equal. It seems that "taxing the rich" always results in taxing the middle-classes more. Once in place, the policies of "fairness" used against the "rich" eventually get turned on everyone and we all lose.

Nope sorry, this goes way beyond simple point of view. This cuts to evolution itself. The math as we are going by right now, is causing a huge gap, and that gap is like literally stretching a rubber band beyond it's breaking point. 

This is literally ignoring the maintenance of a car engine. Even the smallest part of an engine if ignored can, if ignored too long , long term cause irreversible damage.
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Religious Liberty? - by TrueChristian - February 9, 2016 at 8:51 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 9, 2016 at 8:54 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by ApeNotKillApe - February 9, 2016 at 8:58 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 10, 2016 at 4:24 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Chad32 - February 9, 2016 at 9:18 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by The Valkyrie - February 9, 2016 at 9:24 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Regina - February 10, 2016 at 8:18 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Mermaid - February 9, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Religious Liberty? - by KUSA - February 9, 2016 at 9:35 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by ignoramus - February 9, 2016 at 9:36 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 9, 2016 at 9:37 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by SteelCurtain - February 9, 2016 at 9:54 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Ravenshire - February 9, 2016 at 10:10 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Ravenshire - February 9, 2016 at 10:06 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Nay_Sayer - February 10, 2016 at 8:39 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Homeless Nutter - February 10, 2016 at 11:43 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 10, 2016 at 8:53 am
Religious Liberty? - by LadyForCamus - February 10, 2016 at 10:38 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by mediocrates - February 10, 2016 at 10:50 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 10, 2016 at 11:49 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Divinity - February 10, 2016 at 12:38 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 10, 2016 at 1:47 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Divinity - February 10, 2016 at 2:14 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by rexbeccarox - February 10, 2016 at 2:50 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 10, 2016 at 2:55 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 10, 2016 at 3:38 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 10, 2016 at 8:37 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 10, 2016 at 2:04 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 10, 2016 at 6:45 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Jackalope - February 10, 2016 at 6:52 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 10, 2016 at 7:10 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 10, 2016 at 9:53 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 11, 2016 at 7:56 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 8:07 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 11, 2016 at 8:14 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 10:55 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Pat Mustard - February 16, 2016 at 12:46 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 16, 2016 at 4:55 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 16, 2016 at 5:19 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Pat Mustard - February 17, 2016 at 2:10 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 17, 2016 at 8:21 am
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 11:10 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Pat Mustard - February 17, 2016 at 4:45 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 5:05 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 4:13 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 17, 2016 at 6:21 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by KevinM1 - February 10, 2016 at 11:22 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by The Valkyrie - February 10, 2016 at 11:42 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 8:04 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by SteelCurtain - February 10, 2016 at 6:52 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Ravenshire - February 10, 2016 at 8:26 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by rexbeccarox - February 10, 2016 at 9:58 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by CapnAwesome - February 11, 2016 at 12:10 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 2:38 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Ravenshire - February 11, 2016 at 3:02 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 10:52 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 11, 2016 at 11:06 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 11:37 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by ohreally - February 11, 2016 at 4:58 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 7:10 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 10:45 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by ohreally - February 14, 2016 at 2:43 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by SteelCurtain - February 11, 2016 at 3:18 am
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 8:25 am
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 11, 2016 at 12:04 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 3:01 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 11, 2016 at 12:06 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by I_am_not_mafia - February 11, 2016 at 12:22 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 15, 2016 at 8:14 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by rexbeccarox - February 11, 2016 at 2:47 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 3:02 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by rexbeccarox - February 11, 2016 at 3:06 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Nay_Sayer - February 11, 2016 at 4:17 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by rexbeccarox - February 11, 2016 at 5:13 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 4:19 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 11, 2016 at 5:19 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by rexbeccarox - February 11, 2016 at 5:22 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 7:36 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 8:00 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Cyberman - February 14, 2016 at 8:41 pm
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Joods - February 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2016 at 11:09 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 12, 2016 at 10:33 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 14, 2016 at 8:30 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Cyberman - February 15, 2016 at 12:30 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 15, 2016 at 12:30 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 15, 2016 at 1:37 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by robvalue - February 15, 2016 at 5:05 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 15, 2016 at 11:49 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 15, 2016 at 12:07 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by SteelCurtain - February 15, 2016 at 2:01 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 15, 2016 at 5:44 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 15, 2016 at 2:41 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 15, 2016 at 5:47 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 15, 2016 at 7:23 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 16, 2016 at 12:41 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 16, 2016 at 3:08 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 16, 2016 at 7:59 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Ravenshire - February 15, 2016 at 6:29 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by SteelCurtain - February 15, 2016 at 2:54 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by SteelCurtain - February 15, 2016 at 5:16 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 15, 2016 at 6:47 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Pat Mustard - February 16, 2016 at 11:05 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 4:27 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 17, 2016 at 6:06 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 6:29 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Mr.wizard - February 17, 2016 at 6:21 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 6:47 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 17, 2016 at 7:03 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 17, 2016 at 7:19 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 17, 2016 at 10:04 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 18, 2016 at 8:29 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 17, 2016 at 7:00 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 17, 2016 at 7:46 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Mr.wizard - February 17, 2016 at 8:03 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Mr.wizard - February 18, 2016 at 7:04 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 18, 2016 at 7:55 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Mr.wizard - February 18, 2016 at 6:27 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 18, 2016 at 9:54 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 18, 2016 at 9:44 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 18, 2016 at 10:16 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by bennyboy - February 18, 2016 at 10:09 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 18, 2016 at 10:18 am
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Brian37 - February 18, 2016 at 10:25 am
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RE: Religious Liberty? - by Neo-Scholastic - February 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm
RE: Religious Liberty? - by Crossless1 - February 19, 2016 at 5:04 pm
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