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Article #23113Re: rights and persons
From: Richard Tobin
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <yc%j4.8566$v31.911076@ptah.visi.com>, Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote: >Hint, rule 1: If it is possible for it to be impossible for you to have a >given thing, you have no right to it. Since it is possible for there to be >no way to feed someone, people do not have a "right" to food. >This is why, for instance, we recognize a right to the *pursuit* of happiness. Oh come off it, Peter. It's clearly sometimes impossible to save someone's life, and yet your declaration of independence doesn't only assert the "right to pursuit of life". Sometimes you can't free someone, and yet they supposedly have the right to liberty. BTW, has anyway ever tried demanding some of that property that you have a right to? -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,92d97b78a13510de X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 102b75,6e7c0786c7ba904e X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: rights and persons Date: 2000/01/29 Message-ID: <86vt2a$53e$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 579321190 References: <y4902dyklq.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <qhaeltbt4i.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <388F3D24.E627A7A7@home.com> <yc%j4.8566$v31.911076@ptah.visi.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk X-Trace: pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk 949188490 5230 129.215.110.29 (29 Jan 2000 23:28:10 GMT) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jan 2000 23:28:10 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch,gnu.misc.discuss