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posted by: WhyNot (reply) post date: 11.20.04 (10:40 am) "When I read this text law, I have a strange sensation: all the text is just a declaration of good intentions in a first part of a sentence but that has always a counterpart that annihilates the first part." Mmmm... do you really think so? I just re-read it, and I don't get that feeling. Sure, some of it could be re-worded in a way more adapted to 21st century values, but you have to remember this was written at a time when the concept of human beings born and remaining equal was a near incomprehensible heresy. In fact, re-reading this 1789 document co-produced by Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, I'm actually amazed at the breadth of vision those guys had for a competely new and better humankind. posted by: funnydiscovery (reply) post date: 11.21.04 (12:28 am) You know under Christianity there was the same kind of wonderfull humanity declaration that was used to "civilise" the rest of the world, today it's in the name of Human Rights that it is done. So declaration of such kind is not only useless because it doesn't garantee against what it is supposed to garantee but even more dangerous because it serves to make people believe that by some kind of magic it will be respected by government whereas government is inherently submitted to corruption and the very first line of this Human Rights just reminds it. What I mean is not that I don't adhere to this declaration, what I mean is that it is in PRACTICALITY USELESS since EVEN SECTS LIKE SCIENTOLOGY, IMPERIALIST GOVERNMENT AND DICTATURES USE IT TO PRETEXT TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: ORWELL LIKE IN 1984 THE DISCOURSE OF MORALITY IS VERY USEFUL TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CONFUSE THE DISCOURSE WITH REALITY. posted by: funnydiscovery (reply) post date: 11.21.04 (12:28 am) And since you refered to Thomas Jefferson here's a quote from him "Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819. |
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