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Life, Liberty ..

And a Coronavirus Pursuit of Happiness

Robert Thibadeau
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2 min readApr 16, 2020

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Our government was not established to guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Sometimes we need to be left free to figure that one out, and it is actually not easy for anyone.

On the other hand, it was established to guarantee life and liberty.

Get it straight.

Life is pretty easy to understand. There are edges of controversy as to when it started and when it ends, but picking people at random to kill is not an option.

Liberty is harder to understand. But we do understand that at least as well. It is the division of government and the respect for each of the branches. To get into the detail, review George Washington’s Last Farwell. It is exactly what his address is all about.

Liberty means we, as Patriots, respect everyone. We do not lie to each other. We do not promote faction or party.

Prove what I say to yourself. Read it in President Washington’s plain own words.

And if you continue to lie without respect, then you will bring us death and dictatorship as certainly as the Sun rises. The world has known this for 400 years. Lies without respect are fiat lies and …

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Robert Thibadeau

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com