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To: Lane3 who wrote (145165)	10/31/2005 12:06:33 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

So, to put it in context, you're saying that a moral right without the power to assert it is valuable, after all, in that you get to call yourself a victim I hate to use the term victim, because it's so loaded nowadays. But its close enough - it is a moral claim that you are wronged. In a society of laws, that only goes so far because your remedies are limited at law. But you can still resort to moral pressure - if others recognize the injustice, they can exert social pressure on the wrongdoer. Ostracization still has force. That was what Mills referred to in "On Liberty" - most wrongs are only suitable for social sanction, not legal sanction. In the "old days", injustices led to blood feuds. Which were a kind of enforcement of rights as you would say. <g> Derek