Should Rand Have Given More Credit to Locke?

Posted by khalling 13 years, 2 months ago to Philosophy
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Looking for some feedback on the premise that Rand expanded on natural rights to more clearly define property rights. Any comments gratefully appreciated


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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll not conspire to satisfy your "selfish" desires! LOL
    We are all entitled to that which we have earned. A looter I am not!
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have never heard this song before... I don't like it. lol... I never requested violence...just to be "hit" with a point reduction. Hit me. I didn't like your video...HIT ME!
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well... aren't you the defiant student? I didn't expect you to correct it, I was asking if I was correct in where it belonged. (sigh). (When are we going to eat Grandma?? lol Big bad wolf flashbacks??)
    You do indeed deserve an A for your generous research. I found the "ignorant and free" one, but I will keep the others for later use. Thank you :)
    (For the record, I am not a teacher.... and I don't want to eat Grandma.)
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I know where the comma belongs, but I will make no effort to correct it… :)
    When are we going to eat Grandma? When are we going to eat, Grandma? Sorry Teacher, I suppose that A is out of the question now…huh? :)

    ”A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”James Madison

    ”To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
    James Madison

    If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. Jefferson

    Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
    Thomas Jefferson

    Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    Not exactly what you are looking for… but what I could find quickly... along those lines...
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes.....I needed a new one. My old one was:
    "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
    I'm sure these annoy some people....which is why I do it.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 2 months ago
    ...hmmmm ...yes in that order. Voting liberals ARE sharks.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    HATE sharks... and body cavity searches... The gulch happenings today are giving me the willies.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm going with this one:
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson.
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