[exodus]

I will open up a new can of worms; do African fathers have a right as parents to exercise their cultural tradition of preforming clitorectomies on their baby girls?
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You still don't understand what a Right is.

No, fathers do not have a "right" to perform clitorectomies, but the families in those countries do have that power. That is a learned behavior, not a Right.

[JohnGalt]

I know darn well what you are trying to say a right is; I was once like you and learned all about my rights.

My point is that your definition of a right has no practical value (Mr Leroy and you both said 'rights' have political value, potentially anyway) where as my definition gives us a framework for which to think about rights and how best to preserve them for the next generation.


This is right vs left libertarianism 101, so enough with the 'I still don't know stuff...'