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In article <86vt2a$53e$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>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.

"shorthand".

Mostly, it is crucial to remember that the phrase "right to X" normally does
not include the option of taking it from others by force.

In other words, you can't kill people to get food, and you can't necessarily
even just steal from them to get food, even though you have a right to life.
The "right to life" is not an entitlement to anything and everything you may
need to sustain your life; it is merely a right not to have your life taken
from you.

-s
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