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Old 12-28-2006, 03:16 PM
fretelöo fretelöo is offline
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Default Re: Politics-Ethics Question

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There's a word to describe the situation where a lack of action can be considered a criminal act. The word is slavery.

Is a refusal to give a hungry man a meal the equivalent of taking a hungry man's meal away from him?

The notion that a lack of action is the same as an action is absurd and flies in the face of the entire notion of political liberty.

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Read closely and gain wisdom. There is a difference between "refraining from doing something" and "lack of action". I trust in your intellectual capacity to figure out what that difference consists of.
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