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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Nor should they be the same...I just want to be allowed to live my life to my standard, respecting the right of others to do the same.
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I'll take that as meaning the right of others to live their lives to their own standards ... rather than the right of others to live life to your standard.
It's a noble ideal ... however, more often we see the breach rather than compliance. Let's face it ... we live in a country full of people who seem to be intent to impose their standards on much of the world ... on other people who might be quite content to live life by their own standards. Those folks doing the imposing like to call them "our" standards -- meaning the people of the United States, I suppose -- but most of what I see imposed has nothing to do with
my standards.
I always get the jim-jams when someone refers to the United States as a "Christian nation." OK .... so when was the Bill of Rights repealed exactly?? I really should be kept abreast of this stuff (so I'll know when to start building a secret room I can hide in when they come for me).