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by gort 17y ago
"For example, a right to health care" But we have a right to health care, at least where I live, and I'm not aware of doctors' rights being compromised. Nothing's forcing them to work for the National Health Service. That sort of right mere
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by gort 17y ago
Be that as it may, one can easily imagine cases where the benefits of creating a positive right would outweigh the harm. Any particular reason to think negative rights must trump everything else?
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by gort 17y ago
Fine. That which is important shouldn't be fragile enough to need cherishing.
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by gort 17y ago
"these people prey on organs from the recently deceased." They're trying to save lives. Make no mistake, people's lives are jeopardized every time someone decides that the integrity of a corpse is more important. Edit to add: the descriptio
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"I do find these body parts people just plain disgusting." Saving lives is more important than your feelings.
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by gort 17y ago
Wouldn't it be odd if, out of all the seemingly unrelated systems in the universe, none of them turned out to be governed by similar maths?
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by gort 17y ago
A good way to visualize this is to imagine a family tree going back for many, many generations. You'd find that certain males were your ancestor "more than once", i.e. you might find the same man was your ancestor on both your mother and fa
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by gort 18y ago
Don't pretend this applies to just religion. If you openly declare your belief in alchemy, alien abduction, astrology, the Easter Bunny, fairies, ghosts, holocaust denialism, karma, the Loch Ness Monster, magic, moon-landing-hoaxism, 9/11 t