Posted on 08/31/2003 9:27:09 AM PDT by NMC EXP
Rights do not need a supernatural author or “giver” to be natural and inalienable. They can be so by the nature of the thing (person) that has the right - as was stated, rights are among equals, swatting a fly does not violate a right because the fly is not an equal, but giving one person special treatment over another DOES violate the right of equality...of course that means those with the “rights” must agree on that equality, which, if you look back 100 years in the US, you did not have that agreement...Rights, in practice, must be claimed, exercised, and defended, or they become meaningless.
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