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To: robertpaulsen
Natural rights derive from man's nature---specifically, his free will and reason. As a free-willed reasoning being, a man is able to formulate and pursue his own ends, and it is thus contrary to his nature to use him as a means to one's own ends. Thus, a man has the right to perform any action that violates nobody else's rights.
75 posted on 06/17/2003 11:56:24 AM PDT by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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To: MrLeRoy
And these are different from unalienable rights?
76 posted on 06/17/2003 12:37:32 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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