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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The Nature of Rights
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Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 04:36:18 EDT
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Re: where do rights come from if you dont believe in God.

The simplistic answer is to stay that rights are "the unalienable right"
of intelligent, conscious life. This is not as circular as it seems, after
all if only "the right to have rights" is fundamental we have at least
found one a priori thing on which to rest our other conclusions.

On the other hand, i think that intelligent conscious life has rights not
"a priori" but because they WANT rights and have the necessary wherewithall
to protect and defend those rights which they have defined.

Laura Creighton
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