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<sigh> Please forgive my country, as it seems | by adiplomat | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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I am looking forward to the US invading Holland! | by bavvy | 2002-07-09 01:19:27 |
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Bush is correct. | by slayer | 2002-07-09 01:35:51 |
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By the reasoning | by SaleGamine | 2002-07-09 01:41:55 |
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That is my point. | by slayer | 2002-07-09 01:52:38 |
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No, because that is another basic human right | by bavvy | 2002-07-09 01:57:35 |
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Freedom of speech is not a human right | by slayer | 2002-07-09 02:06:35 |
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Humans are not cruel | by bavvy | 2002-07-09 02:10:24 |
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Oh yeah? | by breezeblock | 2002-07-09 02:15:21 |
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The fact that it is not respected | by bavvy | 2002-07-09 02:23:49 |
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Sorry to disappoint you but it does. | by breezeblock | 2002-07-09 03:02:18 |
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"Right" does not mean bullet-proof | by tigermouse | 2002-07-09 04:50:42 |
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Seems that our definition of "right" are confused! | by breezeblock | 2002-07-09 05:01:49 |
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*Hurks enormous stone at breezeblock* | by tigermouse | 2002-07-09 05:11:41 |
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In whose eye? | by breezeblock | 2002-07-09 05:22:02 |
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...and furthermore! | by breezeblock | 2002-07-09 05:53:57 |
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I'm with you on this one. | by Naruki | 2002-07-09 10:54:27 |
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mmm, okay | by tigermouse | 2002-07-09 11:40:47 |
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Naruki didn't say that at all. Reread hir post. | by flamebait | 2002-07-09 13:45:33 |
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hmm, still reads that way to me | by tigermouse | 2002-07-09 14:47:09 |
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For one thing, the definition you insist on using | by flamebait | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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by tigermouse |
2002-07-09 16:35:39 |
right as opposed to wrong is usually an adjective. However, your definition will do just as well.
"Nature" doesn't mean nature as in "Mother Nature", but as in "essence". Therefore, rights are due to a person because of the way reality is. This doesn't require supernatural powers as far as I can see. Society passes laws and grants privileges, some in accordance with "natural" rights, some not.
There is something called natural law, "that instinctive sense of justice and of right and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated human law." Rights don't need "divine" law, nor need they be wholly derived from human law. |
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There is a new lifeform called "throbble". | by Naruki | 2002-07-09 17:37:55 |
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Throbbly ones, I spose | by tigermouse | 2002-07-09 18:09:57 |
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Slowly. | by Naruki | 2002-07-09 18:27:10 |
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If these beasties exist | by tigermouse | 2002-07-09 19:42:59 |
