Comments on: Fourth of July Edition

By: Belligerati

Belligerati — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:02:51 +0000

Does personal liberty cause development?

In Fourth of July Edition, Aid Watch says: “Created equal” is a principle yet to be accepted in most of the world, which perhaps has a lot to do with why most of the world is still not developed. Inequality…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:02:47 +0000

Here is a link to the address itself.

By: Stray Taoist

Stray Taoist — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:54:02 +0000

@zulusafari

The blockquote is all done via definitions in the style sheet. If you view the source of the page, then get the stylesheet links, the answers should all be in there.

By: zulusafari

zulusafari — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:05:32 +0000

I LOVE this and will rt on twitter. I HATE how easily a socialists can use these words to twist the understanding as our ‘fathers’ meant.

@Stray

You did it justice by pointing out the difference. Thank you. It does not mean ‘right’ to water/electricity/health care/education/driver’s license, etc etc. but the ‘right’ for the freedom to pursue those things.

PS. I love they way your blog ‘blockquotes’ your quotes. Can anyone tell me how to do this same look and feel?

By: Yi

Yi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:48:27 +0000

It’s amazing the U.S. has achieved the statement within 200 years, albeit not perfect, it is, in contrast, shamed to look back at the long history of China, a country in which the people usually are proud of the length of its existence while sometime making fun of Americans: still writing the history.

For the past 2000plus years for China, not until the Opium War the Chinese society had been like completely in coma: alternate dynasties replacement over and over again without any real enhancement in people’s ethics respecting what equality is meant to be. People were so used to a society led, controlled, and exploited by elites, a society the majority barely talked about equality. The situation doesn’t change too much even in the current society of China, still a totalitarian government, which is ironic since the communist party once revolted for the ideas like “freedom”, “democracy.”

For these luxuries, I hope China is already on the way, heading to the target, so are others where the “created equality” has not been accepted yet.

By: Stray Taoist

Stray Taoist — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:45:17 +0000

People tend to conflate ‘equality of rights’ with ‘all men are born equal’ with ‘all people are equal’

We may be all created equal, but we aren’t all equal (thank God), and we certainly all don’t have equal rights.

The first two will never be true, and I doubt the third will be either, but it is the one we strive towards.

But that might just be a pedantic interpretation of the pure meaning of the terms.