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To: Elroy who wrote (357641)	4/5/2010 12:44:02 AM
From: ig	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793916

I think it's being suggested that you have some "natural" right to pass your genes along, with or without any government say-so. Whether the government will allow you to exercise that right is another matter. The same is true for any rights you may claim, no matter their "source" -- God, government, tradition, might (makes right), your creative imagination, or whatever: your rights don't do you a lot of good unless you have some power to back them up. For instance, having the right to, say, own property, doesn't mean you have the ability or power to exercise that right against an agency that has the will and power to stop you. I think our "natural" rights -- rights we think of as being the most fundamental, such as our rights to life and liberty -- come from our imagination. We make them up. They're as "real" as we make them. And making grand declarations about our rights makes them seem more real. Which is fine. After all, we have the right to make up whatever the hell we want! Right?