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veganlush

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Thu Apr-22-10 01:31 PM
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17. people from long ago said lots of things that don't really apply

today as they may have then. If, as Saint George Tucker said, "the right of self defense is the first law of nature.." and if you can interpret "self defense" as just everybody grabbing every cowardly weapon that man invents, Why can't some of us interpret "self defense" as fighting against the production and dissemination of these destructive bravery replacements in the first place?

"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defence (sic) is the first law of nature...
Saint George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries (1803), Volume 1, Appendix, Note D

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