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> The founders recognized first the right of association and speech, and second the right to personal autonomy; to bear arms and kill those who would subjugate
by eyelidlessness 4y ago
> The founders recognized first the right of association and speech, and second the right to personal autonomy; to bear arms and kill those who would subjugate or kill you.
Before they recognized either, they recognized the ownership of human beings as property and specially allocated those human properties as fractional humans.
- pxmpxm 4y agoAppeal to emotion, therefore your point is invalid... Didn't expect to read something this vapid on HN. You may as well have said they owned slaves and therefore their ideas are forever wrong. I would suggest you actually read about the strategy behind the 3/5ths clause; everyone that invokes that as invective merely signals his/her ignorance of that context.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI think you may have been quick to invalidate the point you thought I was making?