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The Bill of Duties, Part I

You have a right to speak your mind freely, and express what’s important to you, you have a duty to make your words sincere, and do what you must to speak the truth. Also to protect those who would speak out, even if with them you do not agree, because if you try to silence them then you’re a hand-maiden of tyranny. You have a right to worship what you will, to believe the dictates of your conscience, and not to let this be taken by folks who claim that your morals only offend. To never spread what you are thinking by resorting to harsh methods of force, and to resist those who would do it to you, live-and-let-live, as a matter of course. You have a right to assemble, protest, to demand redress for the powerful, to remember no right is optional, but those in government do wish to full, and that your protest must respect others, since they also have a claim to this right, and should the oppression continue on, you may have a duty to go and fight. You have a right to keep and bear weapons, to defend your life with great lethality, you have a duty to own a weapon, to understand it’s use in entirety, to never us it unless there is no choice, since a weapon only has one purpose, to know when to use it, and if that time comes to understand what happens when you miss. You have a right to possess property, to control all the fruits of your labor, and a duty to respect the hard work shown by the property of your neighbor. To not let the success others have earned drive you to a covetous jealousy, to understand that all civilization is based on people using their property... CONCLUDES IN PART II.

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