-=> 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,
DRN> Yeah, Joe, but wasn't that the religion that involved the sacrifice of
DRN> the chicken and sex with a female goat? 
No, this religion supported plural marriage, taught eternal life 
existed, and other things.  It's first leader was murdered, it's 
people forced to leave the US, and extermination laws passed upon it 
people.  If you and I are both in Mosouri (sp?), ohio, illionis, or 
indiana, you can leagly shoot me..
DRN> Has anyone ever come out and said that individual rights must suffer
DRN> as people become more and more crowded together?  It's much easier to
yep.  big brother has said that.
DRN> Example:  You have a god-given right to play country-western music on
DRN> your radio at full volume.  I have a god-given right not to listen to
DRN> that crap.  If you and your radio are within earshot of me, one of us
DRN> must give up our right, as in "You gonna turn off that radio or is
DRN> this .44 Magnum gonna go off in your face?".
So you are going to threaten me with deadly force because you don't 
like cowboy music?  the only time I can think that you would have even
the tinyist right to do that is if I was on your property, and/or I 
was pointing a gun at you.
DRN> You mention practicing your religion, can't you conceive of a
DRN> situation where practicing your religion would be offensive to someone
DRN> else?
yes.  that doesn't mean that it's wrong.
DRN> We have a lot of problems today, pollution, depleting natural
DRN> resources, erosion of individual rights, etc. that really aren't
DRN> problems at all, they are *symptoms* of THE problem, which is over
DRN> population.
Don't worry.  When I have children, I won't contribute to the 
"problem" too much.  I think I'd like somewheres between 5 (like my 
mamma had) and ten.  and around here that is a medium sized family.
DRN> Just my $0.02 worth.....
If you wish to delude yourself into thinking that it's worth that 
much....
joe
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