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To: longnshort who wrote (326730)	2/20/2007 8:54:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1587368

A natural right, no. Unless you are big enoungh and strong enough to back up your free speech 'right'. Nature gives you no right to this. If I was big enough and strong enough would I then have such a natural right? You seem to be using a different meaning of the term. I don't equate natural rights with being strong, and I don't think asserting a natural right means either that you are strong enough to protect it, or that God or the universe will somehow prevent your right from being violated. If natural rights were self enforcing (if the physical laws of the universe made it impossible to violate them, or if God prevented their violation) than it wouldn't make sense to talk of violations of natural rights. I would assert that natural rights can be violated. You seem to assert that if they are violated then they where not natural rights.