From 08ffc4475b6160c0f95c1a9104d9abb915139544 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wellspringcp <69349872+wellspringcp@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:47:59 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md --- 00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md b/00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md index a729aad..6a19361 100644 --- a/00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md +++ b/00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Reason entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that t Existence exists and the act of grasping this implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness. These two -- existence and consciousness -- are axioms humankind cannot escape; these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action one undertakes, in any -part of one's knowledge. Whatever one knows, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**. +part of one's knowledge. Whatever one knows, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. We hold these axioms to be self-evident and self-reaffirming: that **Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification**. -We hold these axioms to be self-evident and self-reaffirming: that man is a rational creature possessing a rational consciousness which is his only tool of +Man is a rational creature possessing a rational consciousness which is his only tool of survival and that to hamper a rational creature's mind is to hamper its ability to live and thrive - thus a man's right to life is his right to the unhampered use of his rational faculty in the pursuit of his life and thriving. That to secure this right to life means to secure it against the predations of other rational creatures who wish to survive as brutes who extort others rather than as rational men who think and produce. That governments are instituted among men to enforce