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To: Junior

"Rights" are a human concept derived from enlightened self interest.

Exactly!

144 posted on 08/22/2005 12:54:45 PM PDT by Vive ut Vivas

To: Vive ut Vivas; Junior

"Rights" are a human concept derived from enlightened self interest.

And I second that ;)

An other important point is that not rights are inherent to the individual but the desire to have certain rights.

(Just posted this on that other thread but I see this topic got carried over to this one)

149 posted on 08/22/2005 1:20:52 PM PDT by BMCDA (Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent. -- L. Wittgenstein)

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