Monday, November 05, 2007

To add to yesterday's post I would improve on the last
statement and suggest that the last three are exactly
what has happened, or has been happening for a
very long time.

Some time in the past, maybe even around the end of Hobbes'
"state of nature", the big three became somewhat acceptable
(there is evidence for tribal or individualised violence
15K years ago in the form of man-traps etc, this may be before
or after the date I refer to) and rules were then established,
possibly the first unwritten laws, to regulate these activities.

This would generally involve the limitation to and later behalf
of a prince or noble.

The basic "freedom" remains to this day: the freedom to
kill, rape or to otherwise brutalise one's fellow man.
All other freedoms are non-existent or non-relevant
as they depend on the basic freedoms of what we often
refer to as civilisation.

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