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To: Solon who wrote (10449)	12/4/2010 3:49:50 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

" I would know that life with my peers was no longer worth respecting, and I would head into the deep woods to live out the remainder of my life with the wonderful animals..." who would kill you in a NY minute

To: Solon who wrote (10449)	12/4/2010 6:09:46 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I hold a rather curmudgeonly view as regards human rights. I am only interested in effectively inalienable human rights, and the only one that passes that level of scrutiny is the right to (eventually) die. As for "lesser" rights, those that require consensus and cooperation by society, I am negatively awestruck by how fragile they are. The supposed right to abortion ... if society (be that a devout family or a meme-rotten government) chooses to infringe it, does the right remain? What use to anybody is a right that is an abstraction? Harumph.