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So George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were not dedicated to the idea of Liberty? Afterall they both held slaves and never "did anything about it" at least until they died.
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They were dedicated to the liberty of those they felt deserved it. If I had lived back then, it would have been illegal for me to vote.
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Say someone shoots one of my family members do I not have the right to kill him without sending him to trial?
If it is wrong, then why?
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Cicero's actions were unconstitional. Under no system do you have the right to engage in vigilante killing, if you do, you would go to prison. You are comparing apples and oranges anyways.
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Just because he wasn't a philosopher doesn't mean you can ignore his philosophical beliefs. Which as you said stem from Greece. Caeser destroyed the last peices of the Republic, he and the future emporers destroyed everything Rome stood for.
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No, he didn't destroy the republic. The republic had already been destroyed before he was appointed dictator, when it expanded from a city-state into an empire two centuries before, and during the power politics of the 1st century B.C. The Roman Senate was little more than a city-council, and Rome had been an empire for quite some time before the rise of Julius Caesar.
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But the Emporer held the actual power. Also keep in mind that voting is not a right, it is a practicle measure to check the Governments power.
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Who's talking about emperors?
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So pointing a gun at someones head and demanding money is only extortion "some of the time"?
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I've never had a gun held to my head at the checkout aisle at Target when they calculated sales tax, so I must never have been extorted.
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What is the moral difference between the Government extorting money and an individual?
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You're changing the subject. I'm not debating about taxes.
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Oh what a rediculus statement, Caeser never had a plan to seriously restore the Republic. Any progress Caeser made was built on a pyramid of quicksand, namely imperial tyranny.
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Caesar was neither harsh or cruel in his governing. He was not an oppressor, he was not totalitarian. He did not seek to set up a hereditary monarchy either. All of these things took form after his assassination.
You have always proclaimed how Western civilization is supreme, you know what I've noticed? We are using the Roman alphabet, we use a slightly modified version of the Julian calendar, hundreds of words derived from Latin have been used in this thread. Everyday I see technology such as arches, concrete, and even domes used. All part of the legacy handed down to us from the Romans, the most pivotal of who was none other than Julius Caesar.