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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: one_less who wrote (20827)7/1/2005 3:42:03 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
"they can be relieved of the responsibility."

Not necessarily, especially if male. But even so, they hold that responsibility until they comply with whatever laws allow them to be relieved, even if that is as simple as bringing the child to a fire station. The point is, while liberty is one of our "inalienable" rights, we compromise it all the time in the interest of other individuals or society as a whole.

PS: You are right - externalities, of which pollution is an example, do (sort of) present situations where rights conflict. I'd class pollution, however, less as a conflict of rights than as a failure to clearly establish who holds them.
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