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Old 05-30-2011, 08:32 AM   #24
Griff
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I guess it comes down to whether rights are a social construct or not, but people seem to have different ideas about what they have a 'right' to.
I think that is a big part of why I think of Rights as social constructs. Someone in China might be focused on a Right to eat every day, while in the West we might focus on a Right to breathe air without coal particulate to have babies willy nilly.
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