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THOUGHTS
FOR THE POST MARXIST CUBA
by Ricardo Calvo MD
To live rationally in society, man
requires only one thing from his fellow men:
freedom of action. Freedom of action does
not mean freedom to act by permission, which
may be revoked at a dictator's, or a
democratic mob's whim, but freedom to act as
an absolute--by right.
Man requires rights to those
actions necessary to support his own life,
the most fundamental right being the right
to life and private property from which all
other rights, including the right to
liberty, derive.
Rights are moral principles
sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a
social context. They are inalienable--may
not be morally infringed upon. Rights are
not guarantees to things, but only
guarantees to freedom of action (right to
liberty)--and a guarantee to the results of
those actions (right to property).
In practice, in order to protect
rights, a government requires three things:
an army--to protect against foreign
invaders, a police force--to protect against
domestic criminals, and a court system--to
settle honest disputes that arise, enforce
contracts, and to punish criminals,
according to objectively predefined laws.
In a free society each and every
man lives under a rule of law, as opposed to
a whim-ridden rule of men. Such a rule of
law has only one purpose: to protect the
rights of the smallest minority that has
ever existed--the individual.
Ricardo Calvo
June 2000
email: calvo@ccsi.com
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