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Originally Posted by Barney  You're looking at rights in the wrong way. Rights are just freedoms which haven't been restricted yet. |
Yes, like in the past you could kill other people and such. Just make sure you are strong enough to kill anyone in the way. I sure miss those days.
Quite frankly, we traded rights with duties, we got the right not to be harmed, in exchange of the duty not to harm others. (and sending resources for police and court) We got the right for food and shelter in trade for sending resources if possible. With this we also got the responsibility to make sure government is governed fairly. Which people in many countries fail miserably in, and i think that is why you see them as merely restricting your freedom. Edit: they are a human creation, of course.
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Originally Posted by Barney It's completely unethical for us to say that something with severe mental retardation has less rights unless they are doing some harm, so I don't know why you guys are using intelligence as a factor on how important any given animal is. |
I disagree, the mentally retarded might very well have decreased rights.(Although the rate rights go down with retardedness is not that high IMO) I would not let them have children or anything. Not allowing for them to have different rights goes against my creature based rights, i consider it racism. (A mob would have a bad time deciding rights though.)