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Originally Posted by Publius Infinitum
Sadly WF... those aren't rights. Like Abortion, they are acts which deprive others of their rights, thus they violate the responsibility inherent with your Right to your life's fulfillment, to not infringe on the Rights of others.
Again I have not conceded any right to any government... and a government that requires I do so, except for in cases of extreme emergency, is not a just government and indeed one which the duty inherent in my Right requires it be dispatched.
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I agree with you completely, I'm just stating the logic behind the idea that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property. The reason a government has to exist is to prevent people from taking away these rights from other people, which they would do in a state of nature. In that way, the government is a contract between the people not to violate life, liberty, or property and all of the citizens give their right to punish any offenders of these rights to the government. I wasn't really saying that people have a
right to deprive people of life, liberty, or property, it's just that they do without a government. It all depends on how you define the word "right."