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To: Boogieman

I think that you, and others here, are overthinking this issue of rights.

Here’s the bottom line: genuine Rights exist for an individual whether there are other around you or not. Others cannot help you realize these rights, because they are individual. If they require the forced cooperation of others, through their labor, resources, or even their ascent, to be realized, then these “rights” are proven false.


26 posted on 05/21/2015 1:54:06 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: fwdude

“I think that you, and others here, are overthinking this issue of rights.”

There have been hundreds of years of thinking about rights to take into account. It’s not a simple issue you can summarize with a single sentence.

“Others cannot help you realize these rights, because they are individual. If they require the forced cooperation of others, through their labor, resources, or even their ascent, to be realized, then these “rights” are proven false.”

If your assertion is true, then you have no right to life or property, since those rights rely on others assenting to not deprive you of them. What possible meaning can “right to life” or “right to property” have unless they mean the right not to be deprived of those things by others?


33 posted on 05/21/2015 2:54:34 PM PDT by Boogieman
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