Progressivism: In general, there is no limit to the right of the State

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[JustSayNoToNannies]

you can't have individual rights if 'the people' don't have those rights ~ in fact, if you have such a system that's the old traditional king/nobles system ~

And a system in which "the people" but not individuals have rights is collectivism.

and I am not a Royalist. You, on the other hand, are!

Wrong - my position is not that only certain individuals have rights but that all individuals do.

Your problem is you're balled up in this false conflict between 'individualism' and 'community' ~ they are not in conflict.

They certainly are when the community tells the individual that even behind the closed doors of his home he can't engage in certain activities because the community thinks he shouldn't.

[muawiyah]

I don’t care if you blow your brains out but don’t go opening the village gates to the packs of maddogs lurking around outside the wall waiting for a chance to come in and kill all our chillun’

[JustSayNoToNannies]

They certainly are when the community tells the individual that even behind the closed doors of his home he can't engage in certain activities because the community thinks he shouldn't.

I don’t care if you blow your brains out but don’t go opening the village gates to the packs of maddogs lurking around outside the wall waiting for a chance to come in and kill all our chillun’

How does any voluntary activity performed behind the closed doors of one's home "open the village gates"?

[little jeremiah]

Nother bump.