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What absolute nonsense. Diminishing the meaning of 'rights' is great: if everyone and everything had appropriate rights, there would be no further need for the
by learnstats2 12y ago
What absolute nonsense.
Diminishing the meaning of 'rights' is great: if everyone and everything had appropriate rights, there would be no further need for the concept to be discussed. That's a good thing.
- repsilat 12y agoGiving puppies a legal right to have silly hats and birthday parties obviously diminishes the real rights that we all care about. Rights-proliferation leads to governments taking a pick-and-choose approach to enforcement, and many people would argue that having selectively enforced rights is tantamount to not having any rights at all. See also: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/04/-sp-case-against-human-rights http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/04/-sp-case-against...
- learnstats2 12y agoOK, I agree that you don't really have "rights" if they are unenforced. Giving the rights to puppies as you mention doesn't chanage that either way; this is a red herring. And I suspect it was not the parent commenter's point.