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malthaussen

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5. Sure, and let's not even talk about religion.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:56 PM
Feb 2014

Last edited Mon Feb 10, 2014, 03:06 PM - Edit history (1)

Religious indoctrination is so severe in some cases that I am also willing to cut slack to those who will not fight for their rights because they're told they don't really have any.

And other indoctrination aside, a lot of people who talk about rights don't really know what they're talking about. The concept does float around that rights are something granted, not inherent, and as soon as you open that genie bottle, you place the feminist in the position of supplicant.

Of course the irony is that rights are a polite fiction to begin with, and the people with the guns are gonna do to you what they want, any time they want. There is no such thing as an inalienable right, but as long as we're going to pretend there is, let's have 'em apply to everybody, eh? Regardless of plumbing or pigmentation or whom they dream of at night.

-- Mal

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