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December 30, 2008
Live Free or Die
From Anonymous.
LIVE FREE OR DIE
I want to say something about it. About that slogan.
Not long ago, on BBC TV, a member of the British government tried justifying yet another police state Nu Labour law by saying it was to protect the majority's right to life. The audience expressed disgust. (It was a programme called Question Time.)
This started me thinking.
Supposed the only right you had was the right to life? No right to justice, no right not to be tortured or enslaved. No right to free speech, freedom of thought, personal privacy or security. Only the right not to be killed.
Imagine living a life of tortuous slavery. You're raped for the amusement of your owners. You're hobbled to stop you escaping. You're punished for thoughts you're presumed to have. Your life is a living hell.
What value does the right to life have?
None.
The right to life is a right with no intrinsic value.
The value of that right is in the other rights that depend upon it. You can shut someone up by killing them. Deny someone justice by killing them. Stop someone's thoughts by killing them.
With these other rights, such as the rights to justice, free thought and speech, privacy and security, the right to life is vital. It is as valuable as the most valuable of all the other rights, since those other rights usually depend on life itself being preserved.
Sacrificing those other rights and freedoms for the sake of protecting the right to life is itself an absurdity, a perversion. It is sacrificing the very value of the right to life for the sake of preserving that then worthless right.
As General John Stark said,
LIVE FREE OR DIE
Death is not the worst of evils.
I want to say something about it. About that slogan.
Not long ago, on BBC TV, a member of the British government tried justifying yet another police state Nu Labour law by saying it was to protect the majority's right to life. The audience expressed disgust. (It was a programme called Question Time.)
This started me thinking.
Supposed the only right you had was the right to life? No right to justice, no right not to be tortured or enslaved. No right to free speech, freedom of thought, personal privacy or security. Only the right not to be killed.
Imagine living a life of tortuous slavery. You're raped for the amusement of your owners. You're hobbled to stop you escaping. You're punished for thoughts you're presumed to have. Your life is a living hell.
What value does the right to life have?
None.
The right to life is a right with no intrinsic value.
The value of that right is in the other rights that depend upon it. You can shut someone up by killing them. Deny someone justice by killing them. Stop someone's thoughts by killing them.
With these other rights, such as the rights to justice, free thought and speech, privacy and security, the right to life is vital. It is as valuable as the most valuable of all the other rights, since those other rights usually depend on life itself being preserved.
Sacrificing those other rights and freedoms for the sake of protecting the right to life is itself an absurdity, a perversion. It is sacrificing the very value of the right to life for the sake of preserving that then worthless right.
As General John Stark said,
LIVE FREE OR DIE
Death is not the worst of evils.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 30, 2008 05:37 AM