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To: Father Terrence who wrote (24978)	7/20/2000 11:35:02 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It depends, I suppose, on how you conceive of the matter. After all, your have a general right to contract. However, you do not have a right to bribe public officials to do your bidding, as it would corrupt public business. Thus, your right to make deals with people is circumscribed in the interest of the community. You have a general right to speak out, even exhort, as you desire, but you do not have the right to incite a mob to tear down the courthouse, although it is not owned by an individual, but by the community as a political entity. In other words, the community is a proxy for the interests of its members, and in respecting its rights, you are respecting their rights...........

To: Father Terrence who wrote (24978)	7/20/2000 11:42:23 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

One way to understand rights is this: they are duties imposed upon others to do or refrain from doing certain things. Your right to free speech imposes the obligation on others not to censor you, for example. Now, just as we understand that the various duties that we carry have some mitigation due to exigent circumstance, so it is with the matters under discussion. In wartime, for example, censorship is warranted. The political community is bound to respect your rights, for sure, but not without taking into account the surrounding circumstances that may effect its obligation to adhere to a strict course..........