2006-08-12 15:27:51 · 9 answers · asked by JAMES 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
it is not "life, liberty and hapiness" it is "life, liberty and the pursuit of hapiness" This was changed from its original list of three things which was "life, liberty and property". But if you were to amend your question to ask, "Is there any "life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness"?" I would say yes. most definitely.
2006-08-12 15:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by nathanael_beal 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As far as the government is concerned I don't believe they care about anyone except themselves. My family's lives have been played with and discarded of like old rag dolls, eliminating any liberty that was rightly ours. Basic needs are no longer priority for citizens, only war is. Who can have happiness when you know the government has taken away your liberties? I was not allowed to speak at my own hearing and my child was handed over to a drug user even though I have never commited a crime in my life and never done any drugs myself. All of the so called government organizations that are out there to supposedly help us, just tell us that we need to call another number passing the buck on the next guy who inevidably does the same thing. I have been trying to get justice for 3 years now to protect my family from drug using scum, and all I have found is, there is no help. Stay away from government figures as much as you can and maybe you'll have a happy and liberty filled life. Once they get their grip on you, it's unlikely you'll ever be able to get away without being pegged a criminal. Say bye bye to your freedom, even if you've never done anything illegal or wrong in your entire life. Just remember, they can do what ever they want to you or anyone else, even if it's unfair and illegally done on their part. Their way out is to claim you didn't prove your innosence to them. In other words, they claim ignorance to the facts which is also no excuse to the law, and get away with it while you and I can't. I don't believe there is anymore life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness left in America, there's only people who haven't been victimized yet who believe that the government still gives everyone those rights.
2006-08-12 23:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by booboobear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, John Locke. A wonderful philosopher, though Rousseau was far more original. I believe that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is all based on your perspective. Do you want to believe that there is? Then there is. You control the world around you. :)
2006-08-12 22:38:35 · answer #3 · answered by cadence_lost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as it does not interfere with someone elses rights......
Or breaks a law. We have more freedoms in the USA than any other nation on earth. And I'm glad we have a tough president like Bush. Can you imagine what Al Gore would have done after 9/11?
Passed out roses to the Taliban and Osama and had us all singing Kumbaya around the smoldering ashes.
2006-08-12 22:40:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you are alive (unless your ghost wrote the question), and you have liberty (otherwise you would have been unable to ask the question. Weather or not you are happy is your choice.
2006-08-12 22:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am more worried about a government of, by and for the people. The Bush white house is running the country in spite of the people and that is just wrong.
2006-08-12 22:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you know that it is pursuit of happiness and not happiness. Either way, the answer is the same.
2006-08-12 22:34:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you live in America yes, but I haven't lived any where else so I can't say about anywhere else....but in the US of A you betcha.
2006-08-12 22:29:45 · answer #8 · answered by netjr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is where we make it. But it takes work to make it.
2006-08-12 22:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by falcon1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋