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Originally Posted by Catus Felidae  Regarding our hypothetical child with rights: The child has not committed a crime, but neither has the mother. How then do you argue for taking her rights while using the same reason to argue against taking the rights of the child?
The Constitution specifies rights. It does not rate them as to importance or value when compared to each other. |
It's a mexican standoff, isn't it?
With regard to slavery, you had the right to liberty directly opposed to the right to property. An argument was made then that some people's rights were less important as they were not 'proper humans'.
Sometimes you just have to choose the lesser of two evils. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. Liebling
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi |