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Joe_Gadway

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14. Natural rights

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #12)

Sun Nov 17, 2024, 02:33 PM

Nov 17

In the United States we believe in natural rights or moral rights.
In the Declaration of Independence, they were called rights endowed by the creator.
A government may not RECOGNIZE these rights, but we still HAVE them.
And if a government tries to deny these rights, we have the natural right and the moral right, to KEEP them anyway.
When that happens things can turn ugly, but that's what we did in the American Revolution.
If the worst happens, we can do that again.

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Natural rights Joe_Gadway Nov 17 #14

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