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- From: Jarett.Weintraub%bbs@jptcs.com (Jarett Weintraub)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism
- Subject: What, you're kidding, right?
- Message-ID: <77@jptcs.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:24:26 GMT
- Sender: bbs@jptcs.COM
- Reply-To: Jarett.Weintraub%bbs@jptcs.com (Jarett Weintraub)
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- Okay, at first I thought to myself, "What is this Silliness?" After all,
- it's only a little law. Than I thought, well, now wait a minute here. Lets
- look at this carefully. This law, like the law against suicide involves
- controlling a decision which is purely personal, a freedom that doesn't
- affect anyone else on a constitutional level, and so ought to be protected.
- Then I thought again, when someone mentioned driver's licenses. Driving on a
- PUBLIC roadway is not a right, but a privilege. In order to do so, you must
- adhere to arbitrary laws governing the ue of those roads. Just because the
- Constitution limits the powers of government to control our rights doesn't
- mena that everything we do is something we have a right ( in the legal
- sense) to do, and thus may bring a constitutional challenge to. So, what you
- have here is NOT a constitutional issue or even a freedom issue. (Also,
- someone might want to argue that your not wearing a helmet does have a
- social cost, thus negating your "noone is hurt by it" argument.
-
- *Note: No animals were killed in the construction of this sig.*
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