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Old 05-22-2004, 03:04 PM
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Default Why are civil liberties under the topic of civil rights?

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights are two totally different areas of politics. Civil Liberties are not subsets of Civil Rights. So why is it under the topic heading of Civil Rights as if a Civil Liberty were a type of Civil Right? I'm not just splitting hairs here. Civil Liberties refer to the action of the government not to infringe upon a person's natural rights, and not to allow a person to infringe upon another's natural rights. Civil Rights refers to the action of the government to infringe upon natural rights in order to halt what it sees as a greater evil. If Civil Liberties is viewed as a subset of Civil Rights, it blurs the meaning of both... and makes us all just a little bit stupider.
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