On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:38:46 PM UTC-8, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/6/2013 1:29 PM, F. George McDuffee wrote:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_food


There is no "right" to food, or a "right" to any other good or service.
There cannot be.


The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson reads:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

And yet Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Owning people whom DIDN'T have Equality, Liberty, or the ability to pursue their happiness. This must have cost ol' TJ any number of sleepless nights due to the cognitive dissonance of it all. LOL

Unalienable rights? So if person A murders person B, person A has then forfeited his RIGHT to Life & Liberty, according to the system of laws devised by man. So the "Creator", being conspicuously absent, is over-ruled by the courts of man? So much for UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.

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