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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (79330)	12/1/2003 6:50:33 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Most of us consider "rights" as natural or legal. Natural rights are as given by Jefferson, et al. Rights require a possessor. "I have a right" or "IT has a right" assumes a conscious being whom may be entitled to a certain form of treatment. If something is incapable of judging value it is ludicrous to refer to "right". A rock does not care whether you pour milk on it or pee on it... You might as well say my sperm has a right to whatever. It has more of a right than a walnut, I suppose. But it is nonsensical to speak of right where there is no interest. Point me to one thinker in human existence since the beginning of time who espouses such a strange belief? Erasmus, Voltaire, Socrates, Marx, Diderot??