Feb 11 2009

What are Rights?

Paul

Do you have rights? Of course you do. What are they?

I’m not asking for a lengthy enumeration of each individual right that you believe you possess, but rather a definition of the word. When you speak of a right, what exactly are you talking about? When you speak of an automobile, you are referring to a (usually) four-wheeled vehicle powered (usually) by some form of internal combustion. In that vein, what are we actually discussing when we speak of our “rights?”

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