Immanuel #Kant would have turned 300 today, and people have been sharing their favourite quote of his in his honour.
Here's mine; arguing why whigmakers deserve to vote, while hairdressers do not.
Happy birthday, you sick puppy!
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and the tailor to whom I give cloth to have it turned into a garment seem to stand in very similar relation to me, each of them is nonetheless distinct, as the hairdresser is distinct from the wig maker (whom I may have even given the hair to for it), or the day laborer s distinct from the artist or artisan, who makes a work that belongs to him as long as he is not paid for it. The latter sells his property as one engaged in a trade to another (opus), while the former grants the use of his powers to another (operam).—It is, I confess, somewhat difficult to determine the requirement for laying claim to the class in which one is one’s own master.