ihopehefails
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Demonstrate.Ability =/= 'right
recognizing ability =/= demonstrating a 'right'
agreeing to protect liberties to act on one's abilities =/= demonstrating a 'right'
You've just described the social contract - one that agrees to protect certain liberties and freedoms (such as speech and assembly)
They exist within or without of the social contract.
Define them.
Define an experiment to detect them.
Show them.
Measure them.
How easy....yawn...here it goes.
I wake up and get dressed. I did not need another's permission or validation for that action. The impulse to do that came from my own free will. I then decided to eat which also came from my own free will but I realized that the food in the house did not belong to me so I could not eat it since it was not mine. It belonged to another. I could not infringe on their right to eat their own food any more than they can infringe on mine. I decided to go to taco bell and get something. Again, no agreement from the collective allowed me to do that. I just did it. I then heard Obama's speech and said he is the biggest piece of shit on the face of the earth. Again, no agreement from the collective said I can do that since it was my own thoughts and ideas. No one had a right to those ideas but me and no one had a right to express those ideas other than me.
I can actually think of a whole list of things to do that do not require a list of things that are appropriate for me to do created by the collective agreement. These things that I can do are based on a concept of ownership. I did not own the food so I could not eat it but I owned by thoughts so I can express them however I wanted because of that.
Natural is based on individual ownership of 'things' such as physicial objects like food and non-physical object like thoughts and ideas. The point is is that those things belong to an individual within the community and not the to community itself so no one has a greater say over the use of those things than the individual that happens to own them.
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