From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sun Feb 7 09:58:28 1999
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:58:28 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: rights (2)

la xod. cusku di'e

> ka'u might be thrown in too, in the context of human culture. In the US
> Declaration of Independence se'o might have been more appropriate, since
> that was based on rights issued by God.

{se'o} seems like a good rendering of "self-evident" - it has a kind of
Kantian ring to it. However, I'm not sure how some of the American
revolutionaries would have reacted to the idea that these rights were issued
by God. If I remember rightly (there ought to be an attitudinal for that!),
the phrase "Nature's God" was thrown in as a kind of Deist compromise
between the atheists and the Christians. In fact, if you wanted to express
the idea that rights came from God, {ju'o} would be more appropriate, the
root being {djuno} with religion filling the epistomology place {ta'o
.e'ocaizo'o la'edi'u na'e mukti lenu lenu malmi'o zo djuno darlu kei ba
rapli}

co'o mi'e robin.