I looked this up... Here's the whole quote IN CONTEXT, and I'm asking, what do you disagree with?
"I do not think we should ban most things. I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom, and that is, for example, if you're drinking, we shouldn't let you drive, because you'll kill somebody else. If you are carrying a gun, we shouldn't let you on an airplane. There's a lot of things that we do - if there's asbestos in the classroom we should remove the kids from the classroom until you clean the air."
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If you intentionally infringe/violate my rights, I should respond with all force within my powers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting, but I do have a question: Are you saying that we should not set any limitations on freedom?
ReplyDeleteWe have set some limits. The powers delegated to governments pretty much cover government's powers, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteWe do NOT live in a democracy, but in Constitutional Republics. The rules are set. The need for endless laws is proven in the Old Testament, to be a useless means of keeping a society "civil". Ten Commandments were impossible for those who followed God through the wilderness - those who saw the pillar of smoke and of fire. How many laws would be necessary to "fix" our society?
If we lived in a democracy, the simple majority makes the laws and is free to strip the minority of all rights, life and properties.
That Bloomin' Idiot from NYC is pushing way beyond even the democracy model.
Sorry: "we should not set any limitations on freedom?"
ReplyDeleteNope. God set enough limits for those who need to be reminded... even if we set aside the commandments which are the MOST "offensive":
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
WHAT more is necessary?
Funny, but from time to time (including one day last week), I remember one of my high school social studies teachers telling us to form a circle of chairs in the middle of the room and he proceeded to ask "If you were a businessman, is there anything outside the Ten Commandments you would need, in order to operate your business in a good way?"
I was immediately tempted to say yes... "yes" popped out, before my brain shut my mouth. He called me on it. 45 years later, I still can feel my face getting red.
John Maxwell said "There is no such thing as "business ethics", or any other specific kind of ethics. There is ethics, or no ethics."
(BTW: The Constitution guarantees our rights. It does not give us our rights. I think you corrected yourself, but when you said you think 50% of Americans would say it that way, you're right. People don't watch the subtle differences in how we refer to our rights, but the legalistic traitors pay very close attention and push us to think our rights are derived from government.)