RE: Defuzzing the criteria
- Archived: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:54:00 -0500 (EST)
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:00:30 -0500 (EST)
- From: Ruth Reilly <achren2@aol.com>
- Subject: RE: Defuzzing the criteria
- X-topic: Choice 3
Reading the fuzzy criteria message makes me think that all Americans should spend a little time with the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Then we should decide if we agree with him.
Material for first criterion: Do we believe that all men [human beings] are created equal [in rights, although not in privileges and luck] and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights? Jefferson eschewed the physiocrats "right to property" and replaced it with the right to "the pursuit of happiness". Unlike Adams and Hamilton Jefferson did not believe that virtue was inherited. Money is not happiness. Money is not speech. Money is an effect of labor, property, and imagination.
Suggested criterion: Which of the three choices we have been discussing will safeguard and promote the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of each living American citizen who is qualified to vote?
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