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<blockquote data-quote="WTJ" data-source="post: 1976770" data-attributes="member: 6661">Where does anyone get the idea that it is ok to &quot;force their ideas on others&quot;? I didn&#039;t make a generalization. While there may be a moral or ethical obligation to provide assistance to certain people, it is immoral to perpetuate their misfortune through government policy. Additionally, government has no business legislating moral or ethics. Government is force, pure and simple, and those rights of which you speak existed before government. No person has the right to live off the product of others unless they both agree to the conditions. CCW isn&#039;t a right, it is another government control. Self-defense is the unalienable right.I do not take any moral high ground. However, my moral code tells me it is wrong to steal from one person to give to another. Yes, Robin Hood was a thief, no matter how &#039;moral&#039; his motives. You choose to be a foster parent and that is admirable. That is not a choice available to me. The key word here is choice and &quot;Pursuit of Happiness&quot; does not mean you have a right to capture it at the expense of others.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WTJ, post: 1976770, member: 6661"] Where does anyone get the idea that it is ok to "force their ideas on others"? I didn't make a generalization. While there may be a moral or ethical obligation to provide assistance to certain people, it is immoral to perpetuate their misfortune through government policy. Additionally, government has no business legislating moral or ethics. Government is force, pure and simple, and those rights of which you speak existed before government. No person has the right to live off the product of others unless they both agree to the conditions. CCW isn't a right, it is another government control. Self-defense is the unalienable right. I do not take any moral high ground. However, my moral code tells me it is wrong to steal from one person to give to another. Yes, Robin Hood was a thief, no matter how 'moral' his motives. You choose to be a foster parent and that is admirable. That is not a choice available to me. The key word here is choice and "Pursuit of Happiness" does not mean you have a right to capture it at the expense of others. [/QUOTE]

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