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Originally Posted by ZFBoxcar
Thats exactly what I'm saying (even though I don't really agree with it). I'm saying: If not being able to vote is not a form of oppression, in what way WAS Caesar an oppressor? You have not said what rights he took away, all you said was he ended the republic. But you yourself said the government system is not what matters, but the individual rights granted. So what individual rights did Caesar take away?
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I never said that Caeser took anymore rights away nor did I claim he instituted anymore oppression. My point is that his ideas of what Government should be and his ideas of what is right and wrong were not in anyway consistant with individual liberty. Ciceros weren't either but they were far more consistant then Caeser.
This being said it does not matter what system it is just as long is it protects our rights in no way implies that the Republican system is not more contiguos with the ideal of individual liberty/rights. Supporter Cicero because he reported Republicanism over Dictatorship is a valid position in my opinion.