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From: wex@ittvax.UUCP (Alan Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: "life over liberty
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Date: Wed, 10-Aug-83 09:46:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 10 09:46:58 1983
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Martin Taylor claims that the importance of living is greater than the
importance of liberty.  He quotes "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
as though it were a rank ordering.  This leads to two criticisms from
my view:

1) Is he willing to give up all his liberties merely in order to live?  This is
   not living, it's sheer survival.

2) If the founders of America beleived as you say they did, to whom shall we
   attribute the slogans:  "Give me liberty, or give me death"  and   "Live
   free or die"?

--Alan Wexelblat
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