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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Edwarda who wrote (29647)1/31/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I don't know how I feel about that. I personally want the right to be free of bodily harm, the right to my possessions, the right to do what I want so long as I don't injure anyone else- but I don't really have those rights. Someone can come kill me any time they want- and my family will only have the "right" to seek legal redress- nothing will bring me back. So I think rights and duties, while necessary in a society, are merely traffic lights on the social roadway. They have no independent existence, they are not (imo) absolute unless everyone everywhere agrees they are absolute- otherwise absoluteness is just an arbitrary descriptive phrase.

There is a little poem about that-

Here lies the grave of John O'Day
Who died maintaining his right of way
His cause was right, his will was strong
but he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.
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