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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: DBCowboy
My rights are not determined by my neighbors or by you.
False. Your rights end where mine start.
And vice versa.
Or are you claiming that anyone can do whatever they want?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: DBCowboy
My rights are not determined by my neighbors or by you.
False. Your rights end where mine start.
And vice versa.
Or are you claiming that anyone can do whatever they want?
As long as my rights didn't infringe upon yours why in the #### would you care?
Your rights are determined by the rights of your neighbors, and me.
My rights are not determined by my neighbors or by you.
originally posted by: Eilasvaleleyn
a reply to: Phage
The will of the collective I presume.
Or buying the wrong carton of milk at the wrong place at the wrong time.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: PraetorianAZ
Well its a good thing the bill of rights and the constitution are real and not a myth. Therefore, I have the right to own and use firearms.
Is it?
Do you?
1. Just because a prescriptive right is conferred by a piece of paper doesn't mean a corresponding natural right exists.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: pteridine
I think the typo was clearly interpretable as 'pusher'. I would have changed it if I'd seen it in time.
? If I own a shotgun for hunting season, am I hooked?
Oh yes.
You kill animals for pleasure? Ugh.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: DBCowboy
All rights are ultimately privileges granted by the state. Make no mistake about that. If the state refused you your rights what would you do? Go shoot up the local courthouse?
My rights are not determined by my neighbors or by you.
Do you prefer a society based on dictates by a controlling central authority versus freedom?