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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: TimF who wrote (4317)1/3/2017 4:51:16 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 362141
 
They are different things but they are both areas of serious intrusion by the government. Neither is really anyone else's business. I'd apply that to commerce as well

I'm not suggesting that any of the intrusions we have discussed are unserious. Or of lesser importance. I go back to my point about basic rights, those inalienable things. They radiate out from the individual. The closer they are to the individual, the more claim they have on being inalienable. Our person is already considered inviolate or nearly so. I extended that one notch to intimate association, the family, already recognized as a constitutional right.

You are several layers further removed from the individual and his human dignity when you get to growing wheat and even further removed when selling it. I don't think you can call selling wheat an inalienable right by any stretch of the imagination. Not that it's not an important right, just not inalienable.
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