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What is a right?

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In choosing your own actions, you are far better off carefully considering the consequences to yourself, rather than acting in accordance with your "rights."

As Max Stirner said, "Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

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Spideynw replied on Fri, Aug 27 2010 4:43 PM

Clayton:

Yes!  That is all a right is, a claim.  In other words, rights do not exist.  They are just ideas.

Try waltzing into the vault at your bank and tell the armed guard that the bank's property rights are just ideas. Good luck.

Clayton -

They are just ideas.  But if they are not smart enough to understand that, so what?  It does not change the fact that rights do not exist, except in people's heads.

Try telling most people that the government has no legitimate authority.

At most, I think only 5% of the adult population would need to stop cooperating to have real change.

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