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To: D. Long who wrote (145157)10/31/2005 11:42:40 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793957
 

Rights are a moral claim or demand on others, not some magical force field others physically cannot abridge.


Perhaps, but maybe that's just semantics. If you aren't in a power environment where you can act on the right, it's worthless. Your right without the "magical force field" is just an abstraction, extinct in the wild, so to speak. The claim and the power to enforce it have to be coupled to have something tangible.