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To: Cultural Jihad
If a person can choose to abrogate his inalienable rights then they aren't really inalienable.

You are correct only in the sense that if you choose to imprison yourself, you are not really a prisoner. If you choose to enslave yourself, you are not really a slave. So you are right. Inalienable rights, technically, cannot be voluntarily abrogated. Suicide, however, is a different story, as it is irreversable. But whose fault is that?

894 posted on 01/01/2002 2:17:51 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock
Suicide, however, is a different story, as it is irreversable. But whose fault is that?

Might makes right? The fact that a person can do something equates with a right to do it? People can do lots of wrong things, but we don't elevate those to a human right therefore.

915 posted on 01/01/2002 2:44:21 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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