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two things
Jun. 30th, 2007 10:02 pm1. Interesting non-sound bite:
...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
--the United States Declaration of Independence
2. In high school Civics class, I was taught that in the phrase"pursuit of happiness," the word "happiness" means "property." It's not as cut-and-dried as my teacher suggested. Specifically, the phrase has been cited in various court cases arguing for people's rights to things beyond pursuit of property.
(Thing #2 brought to you by my current reading material, Dan Savage's Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, in which he takes "pursuit of happiness" at face value.)
...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
--the United States Declaration of Independence
2. In high school Civics class, I was taught that in the phrase"pursuit of happiness," the word "happiness" means "property." It's not as cut-and-dried as my teacher suggested. Specifically, the phrase has been cited in various court cases arguing for people's rights to things beyond pursuit of property.
(Thing #2 brought to you by my current reading material, Dan Savage's Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, in which he takes "pursuit of happiness" at face value.)
