Life, some property and the right to serve the collective
How do one reconcile between the concept of “The Pursuit of Happiness” as a fundamental human right and this:
“That’s what history calls us to do, because loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of July. Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it.”
“There is a lesson to be learned from generations who have served: from soldiers and sailors, airmen and Marines, suffragists and freedom riders, teachers and doctors, cops and firefighters,” he said. “It’s the lesson that in America, each of us is free to seek our own dreams, but we must also serve a common purpose, a higher purpose.”
Apparently by saying one thing and its exact opposite in the same sentence….
The real sad thing with Both Obama and McCain subjecting us to serve at the pleasure of the collective is that it doesn’t make any real noise. The idea that individuals will be coerced to serve, and not volunteer to serve if the want, should have drive us to revolt in protests - but it doesn’t.
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