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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (6410)	4/21/1997 3:51:00 PM
From: epicure	of 108807

>Rights are ethical principles applicable only to beings capable of reason and choice< If we accept this then the severely retarded and small children have no rights. Is it your thesis that they have no rights? I personally do not believe anything has "rights" innately and I do not believe in natural law. I believe rights are a human construct, and as such can encompass just about anything. As we have laws to protect animals, we seem to be acknowledging their rights to protection by the enactment of these laws. I do not like the slippery slope that my belief would lead to, though, in that if rights are merely a construct they can be altered willy nilly because there is no rational reason why one construct should be superior to another. That is why I am a strict constuctionist. We have a document that grants certain rights, relatively completely, in a rational way. I would rather stick with that then depend on ad hoc judicial decisions to come up with a better protection of the rights I want.

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