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To: Protagoras
Nice dodge on using Ad hominem and other fallacies to support your obviously defective understanding of the nature of property rights.
422 posted on 03/15/2003 7:59:51 AM PST by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
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To: VRWC_minion
Property rights are only one type of right. There are others. None of them are granted by people or groups of people. (government)

Government is charged with the responsibility of defending rights. Sometimes governments try to define guidelines under which they will defend rights. They may define conditions (under which people agree to the definition of the description of property) for purposes of defending property rights.

Which is not granting rights.

People are free to defend their rights in lieu of government living up to their responsibility to defend them. Or more often, when government itself becomes the usurper of those rights. The second amendment (among other things) addressed this inevitable failure by government.

Your perception of rights is fundamentally incorrect. From that mistake flows all of your other mistakes. And that explains why you are in favor of the ochlocracy that you perceive will allow you to violate the rights of others to further your own personal goals.

423 posted on 03/15/2003 10:16:07 AM PST by Protagoras
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