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To: TimF who wrote (9867)4/19/2002 6:49:33 PM
From: TigerPaw   of 21057
 
If something provides a general benefit but abuses the rights of a particular individual would you support it?

I think it all depends on the circumstance. I would like to think that protecting individual liberty is of the utmost importance, otherwise all liberties could be taken one person at a time. Emminate domain is sometimes a necessary abridgement. There are also cases where people claim an abuse but are really just being asked to conform to rules they should have followed anyway. This is what I call abuse of the grandfather clause. Some of the mining and grazing laws fall into this category. I don't think that just because someone's grandfather was given cheap grazing rights means that it becomes a hereditary privelege for example. Another abuse is when someone lobbys for exclusion from a restriction often using large contributions as an inducement for support, and then balks when the restriction is restored.
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