Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: Pagans are devout; Straussians not so much Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/pagans_are_devout_straussians_not_so_much#23292 Post contents: "It was those Thomists who said in black and white that men, white, black, yellow, or red, had rights because they were men." If your life looks like the tragic parts of a Jack London novel, what good does it do? Rights matter in societies with enough potential longevity, leisure and prosperity to make them worthwhile. Otherwise they are abstractions. Iraqis today have all sorts of rights, but the lights are out and people are shooting at them. Many say they were better off ruled by a sadistic tyrant. The Universal Human Rights crowd cannot fathom this. Sent at: 2008 11 23