Forum: Politics
03-10-2009, 12:37 PM
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Forum: Politics
03-10-2009, 12:36 PM
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Forum: Politics
03-10-2009, 06:36 AM
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Forum: Politics
11-16-2008, 05:49 PM
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They lived and were free (presumably) because...
They lived and were free (presumably) because they lived and were free. Rights have nothing to do with it. Lions live and are free. Mammoths lived and were free. Humans lived and were free. It has...
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Forum: Politics
11-16-2008, 05:40 PM
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I am still unconvinced that rights exist as...
I am still unconvinced that rights exist as anything other than a human construct. Those rights which we have constructed and agreed upon (as a society) I deem worthy of defending and I see them as...
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Forum: Politics
11-16-2008, 05:35 AM
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In what way does that make me wrong? I don't...
In what way does that make me wrong? I don't believe rights are inherent to either sex. I don't believe rights are inherent at all. I was merely pointing out to Radar that the sources he cites as...
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Forum: Politics
11-16-2008, 04:20 AM
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Then I am a monster.
I believe in the...
Then I am a monster.
I believe in the civilising power of progress...through that progress we have identified a set of 'rights' which we currently deem inalienable...but they're not actually...
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Forum: Politics
11-15-2008, 10:52 AM
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Forum: Politics
11-15-2008, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 283
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I think there's something to that, Juni.
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I think there's something to that, Juni.
On the question of rights: I don't believe 'rights' exist as some kind of inherent and definable thing in nature or humanity. We have the 'right' to...
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