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To: D_I_R_T who wrote (4305)2/2/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: Dean Wilson  Respond to of 20981
 
Michael, you wrote:

<<So I can drive around my local neighborhood at 100 MPH and claim it is my individual right?>>

Your example shows how important it is to define an 'individual right'.

<<At some point the common good has to come before individual rights.>>

Not necessarily. Suppose 'individual rights' are those which when exercised legitimately and consistently ARE the common good.

d.



To: D_I_R_T who wrote (4305)2/3/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Father Terrence  Respond to of 20981
 
Michael:

You posit a juvenile analogy I'm sorry to say. . . driving is not a right, it is a privilege, and slamming around in a residential neighborhood at 100 MPH is reckless endangerment and a violation and potential violation of the real rights of other individuals.

You set up a straw man to knock down. Sorry, I'm blowtorching it down.

Father (Light My Fire) Terrence