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Or, What determines a right verses a privelege these days?

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Originally posted by poopsiecui
Or, What determines a right verses a privelege these days?
Speeling - or the lack thereof - is dreadfully important.

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Originally posted by poopsiecui
Or, What determines a right verses a privelege these days?
Or, what determines a right verses a privilege these days?

I guess since so many think they have the right to be happy,
as in the pursuit of happiness. That is all it takes for some
to think they have a constitutional right to get whatever makes
them happy. The little part about pursuit of happiness is really
all we have, not the right to be happy.
Kelly

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Originally posted by KellyJay
Or, what determines a right verses a privilege these days?

I guess since so many think they have the right to be happy,
as in the pursuit of happiness. That is all it takes for some
to think they have a constitutional right to get whatever makes
them happy. The little part about pursuit of happiness is really
all we have, not the right to be happy.
Kelly
A 'right' is the soveriegnty to act without the permission of others.

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Originally posted by poopsiecui
Or, What determines a right verses a privelege these days?
A right is such that if violated, the violated has a legitimate claim against another entity. A privilege does not have this property.

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Originally posted by bbarr
A right is such that if violated, the violated has a legitimate claim against another entity. A privilege does not have this property.
What about my god-given rights? ... even "these days"?

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In California your horse likely has the right to be Governor...

... and if it lived in Washington, and wasn't foreign-born! Well....

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Originally posted by widget
In California your horse likely has the right to be Governor...
Well one end of it at least .

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Originally posted by widget
What about my god-given rights? ... even "these days"?
If God gave us rights, no man should attempt to take them
away. If man gave them to you, than man can take them
away. If it is all just man, you really don't have anything but
the good will of those incharge at this time. All rights you think
you have are but ideals of good guys long ago dead.
Kelly

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Originally posted by KellyJay
If God gave us rights, no man should attempt to take them
away. If man gave them to you, than man can take them
away. If it is all just man, you really don't have anything but
the good will of those incharge at this time. All rights you think
you have are but ideals of good guys long ago dead.
Kelly
For the sake of argument, let's pretend that all agree that
God does not exist.

Why would you feel (given the above assumption) that entities
wouldn't have intrinsic and inalienable rights? That is, why do
you disbelieve that beings have rights that are not conferred by
humankind (and therefore not removable).

Nemesio

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Originally posted by KellyJay
If God gave us rights, no man should attempt to take them
away. If man gave them to you, than man can take them
away. If it is all just man, you really don't have anything but
the good will of those incharge at this time. All rights you think
you have are but ideals of good guys long ago dead.
Kelly
So if you mess with my "god-given" rights, what is my legitimate claim and against which entity?

.... to parpahrase bbbbbarrrrr?

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Originally posted by widget
Speeling - or the lack thereof - is dreadfully important.
Ah yes, the typo fallacy.

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Originally posted by widget
What about my god-given rights? ... even "these days"?
This is the debates forum, move your God-talk elsewhere.

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Originally posted by poopsiecui
Ah yes, the typo fallacy.
nice.