Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:58:48 -0700 | | From | Jonathan Lundell <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 |
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At 6:47 PM -0500 10/22/01, Steven Walter wrote: > > That seems like a willful misreading of the original. Where did you >> get "consent"? Alan suggests that non-rebellion implies lack of >> consciousness, which doesn't imply consent. > >Seems like, but isn't. It's every citizen's responsibility to be aware >of the matters concerning the State. If they aren't, then again it is >their own fault.
I don't quarrel with the fact that you assert that. However, it does not follow from Alan's statement.
And if non-rebellion by a citizenry against immoral behavior by its government justifies the slaughter of that citizenry, then, to quote Jefferson in a slightly different context, " Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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