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Originally Posted by punter11235
You know it's not stealing right ? You just have to pick the rules to govern society which maximize happiness, ....
So society should be set up to maximize happiness? Quaaludes , hookers and blow for all, the organizing principal of the Euro-Social Democrat?
The US government was established primarily to ensure individual liberty, which we seem to consider more important than "maximizing happiness". Individual liberty is the only way to maximal happiness.
From our founding documents, and I never get tired of re- reading these phrases:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
There is no guarantee of maximum happiness, only the liberty to pursue happiness as you see fit.
And your rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness don't come from the state or government, they are natural rights that come from the Creator or Nature's God. They are unalienable.