From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 15 2004 - 13:29:47 BST
DMB et al:
> dmb says:
> Let me try this again. There is a very good reason for the "bundling" of
> rights and equality and it is to be found in this nation's founding
> documents, not my imagination. The Declaration of Independence says, "We
> hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
> they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
> among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The phrase
> Pirsig uses is taken from this sentence and that sentence is so central to
> American political thought and belief, that I just assumed you knew that.
> This is where the "bundling" comes in. The idea here is that everyone is
> equal in the sense of having this rights. It doesn't mean we all earn the
> same income or like the same kind of music or anything else. Its all about
> rights.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm especially glad to see you acknowledge
that equal rights doesn't mean we should all earn the same income or
"anything else." I'll put your "anything else" in my memory lock box. It
includes, I presume, Pirsig's view that some cultures are definitely
better than others despite what the proponents of diversity claim, but not
cultures guided by intellect if they make no room for DQ, like the
socialists.
Platt
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