Re: THE DEMS ARE OUT OF GAS, AND COAL, AND WOOD
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Tue, 17 May 2011, Karl Swenson wrote: > I see what you are saying and actually that was how I expected you to > reply. > > I see another interpretation. If we have a right, or even an > entitlement to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, saying that > the government should facilitate our ability to pursue it by making sure > energy sources are available does not imply that the government must > give us that energy for free, which is how I would read energy as an > actual Entitlement, call it a capital E entitlement. Well, even if it's just a small-e "sense of entitlement", it's still not the healthiest of attitudes. I mean, yes, by all means, people in your country should have the freedom to do what they like ... but there will always be limits, and it makes sense to account for those limits. (Which is not to say that any limits should be *imposed* artificially, etc.) -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot