-=> Quoting Joe Dufresne to Guy Putnam <=-
 JD> I believe that all of the rights guaranteed by the constitution are
 JD> equally important.  I have already lost my right to practice my
 JD> religion,
 Yeah, Joe, but wasn't that the religion that involved the sacrifice of
 the chicken and sex with a female goat? 
 Has anyone ever come out and said that individual rights must suffer
 as people become more and more crowded together?  It's much easier to
 maintain individual rights in a small town in Montana or Nevada than
 in Los Angeles or New York City.  Denser and denser populations
 require more and more restrictive rules to protect the few rights
 remaining.
 Example:  You have a god-given right to play country-western music on
 your radio at full volume.  I have a god-given right not to listen to
 that crap.  If you and your radio are within earshot of me, one of us
 must give up our right, as in "You gonna turn off that radio or is
 this .44 Magnum gonna go off in your face?".
 You mention practicing your religion, can't you conceive of a
 situation where practicing your religion would be offensive to someone
 else?
 We have a lot of problems today, pollution, depleting natural
 resources, erosion of individual rights, etc. that really aren't
 problems at all, they are *symptoms* of THE problem, which is over
 population.
 Just my $0.02 worth.....
 Take Care,
 David R. Norton [norton@doitnow.com]
... Power corrupts.  Absolute power is kinda neat, though.
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