Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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StephenB:
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To grant a right to one person is take away the right of another. This is true in all cases. To grant one man the right to a free college education is to take away another man’s right to keep some of his tax money. Similarly, to grant homosexuals the right to marry is to take away societies right to give heterosexual marriage a special place.
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Since the discussion made an analogy between slavery and anti-SSM, I guess StephenB's analysis would have to be that granting one man his freedom per se is taking away another man's right to exploit the first man's labor without compensation. Which is, all in all, a good thing. And likewise for SB's construction of rights given and taken for SSM. At basis, I think society doesn't have rights... it is the expression of the individual rights of members of society that have meaning. And one individual's urge to deny rights to another doesn't rise to a moral imperative, other than in curbing that aberrant urge of the rights-denier.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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