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To: EricOKC
A right to something cannot exist if it infringes upon the rights of another.

So, in other words, my rights are not absolute and unencumbered. My free-speech rights do not extend to defamation, and I probably don't have the right to shout through a loudspeaker on your lawn at 3 AM.

So, since that we both agree that some restrictions to rights are inevitable, let us turn now to deciding what those restrictions ought to be...

768 posted on 12/22/2002 10:36:44 AM PST by general_re
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To: general_re
Rights are indeed absolute and unencumbered when it comes to government. It is only and solely when we deal with other individuals and THEIR rights that we have "restrictions" on how we exercise our absolute rights so as to respect the equal rights of others. THIS is what you are trying so hard to dodge. You want us to think that our rights come from gooberment and that gooberment can restrict them as it pleases. You are so wrong on all counts that I can't believe your mother doesn't slap you just for breathing her air. I would if you were my kid and had such moronic ideas. I would disown you and make you change your name so that no one would know we were related. Then I would sue you for repayment of all the money I spent raising you, because it was obviously a waste. Either the gooberment propaganda camps worked too well or you have that authoritarian bent; whichever it is, you are probably the shame of your parents.
1,108 posted on 12/24/2002 9:58:11 AM PST by dcwusmc
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