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How can you choose A if I already know you'll choose B?(nm)
Posted on: October 12, 2017 at 15:44:11 CT
cnk
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SideshowBob: In response to your post made here:
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 12:22:21
RE: SideshowBob: In response to your post made here:
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SideshowBob
MU
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10/12 13:33:21
natural rights certain can inform your moral code
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:35:10
So you agree on the immorality of ripping unborn babies limb
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JeffB
MU
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10/12 14:46:34
frame this question in an unhysterical way and I will answer
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 15:57:29
what are the specific natural rights?
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 12:29:23
It begins with the right of self-ownership
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pickle
MU
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10/12 12:56:07
Your rights come from God
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:19:40
natural rights are a human construct, they do not exist
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 14:09:19
Natural rights, not supernatural rights
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:29:03
If God is a myth and natural rights really exist
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:36:58
Because although man's nature is cooperative
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:40:19
Well that is easy son. A world full of people without God
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:48:21
That's not an answer
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:53:08
Here's my answer and I'm not going to fight about
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 14:08:48
free will doesn't exist if an omniscient god exists(nm)
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 14:15:11
that doesn't follow
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 14:23:54
Parents can't stop their kids from making bad choices.
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 14:25:54
that's exactly what that means(nm)
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 14:25:06
no it isn't
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 14:28:36
Let's pretend I'm an omniscient god
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 15:11:53
yes you can
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 15:56:51
how could you choose A?
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 16:01:25
I have the abililty to choose A
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 16:35:04
You have a choice. Why would an omniscient God say
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 15:41:41
How can you choose A if I already know you'll choose B?(nm)
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 15:44:11
I understand, I've asked the same questions. But,
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 15:46:16
you haven't answered my question(nm)
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 15:47:17
You are pre-supposing a lot in your question. You don't
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 15:48:34
In the hypothetical I'm presenting, I know what choice you
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cnk
ATL
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10/12 15:51:32
So you have given up on your kids? Nothing you can do
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 15:56:29
I know that is your hope(nm)
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MUGuy2004
STL
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10/12 14:22:39
Edit: thought I was replying to Preacher
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pickle
MU
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10/12 14:12:43
Nm
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 13:39:12
RE: If God is real, why is the world in chaos right
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:49:13
Just as simple saying a world full of people not
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 13:51:39
Beat me to it (nm)
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:40:32
"nature" can (and does in my opinion) mean God
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:21:42
If you are a pantheist yes
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:25:58
Natural rights are inherent to all men
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:35:31
Rights exist in spite of religion, not because
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 13:33:48
i'm not a pantheist
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:29:42
What use are they if they cannot be exercised ?
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:34:51
What prevents them from exercising natural rights?(nm)
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 13:35:39
they have been brainwashed for decades
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:35:25
LOL Why doesn"t the dictatorial regime recognize their
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Preacher
UMKC
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10/12 13:54:08
because recognizing those rights would prevent the regime
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:55:14
When you actually take the time to learn it
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:01:17
If you have to 'take the time to learn it', that would
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JeffB
MU
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10/12 13:15:53
It is patently self-evident. Inherently, people act in
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:19:21
Not so sure about patently self-evident....
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JeffB
MU
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10/12 13:36:09
Lions and mosquitos have their own nature.
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:39:00
Newsworthy, largely because they are against the law &
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JeffB
MU
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10/12 13:51:56
Goddamn
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pickle
MU
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10/12 14:04:20
Governments like a virus or plague does not
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 13:38:28
What about the right to life of an unborn human being?
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JeffB
MU
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10/12 13:56:06
A clump of human tissue is no different whether it is
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 14:03:34
He or she is a human being, not merely a clump of tissues,
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JeffB
MU
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10/12 14:38:29
Any cell is living. I can scrape off cheek cells and
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TigerMatt
MU
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10/12 15:11:35
Agreed. It's simple and non-controversial
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:04:27
i don't think so
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:22:39
I could be wrong
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:26:25
many (most) do
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:31:23
RE: many (most) do
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:36:41
I'm struggling to make the connection with that one to my
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 13:38:35
Subservience to "the common good" (nm)
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pickle
MU
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10/12 14:10:38
still not seeing it(nm)
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MizzouAstro
MU
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10/12 14:14:12
Life, liberty, property. (nm)
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 12:29:43
Are any other animals entitled to those rights? (nm)
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:07:44
No. Other animals have their own nature
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:08:28
What makes humans entitled to natural rights and other
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:13:03
The human's ability to reason and contemplate his own
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:17:47
does a disabled human, with no ability to reason and
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:21:19
Yes. Of course. (nm)
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:21:39
But you said what makes humans entitled to natural
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:24:43
As in, the natural man.
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:25:33
If every single person was mentally disabled like in your
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:29:15
high five (nm)
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:45:25
High five. (nm)
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 16:07:33
Aren't humans animals?(nm)
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 13:09:27
Yes. Humans are animals.
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:12:49
Do we have the right to kill animals?
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 13:15:26
The better way to put it, is to say that killing animals
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:21:09
ok so animals don't have a right to life
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 13:25:33
Animals do not have a similar right to life as humans, since
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:27:25
where is the cutoff from human nature to animal nature?
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 13:32:38
Do we have any records on neanderthals ability to reason
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:36:21
yes there is ample evidence, also are you saying the
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 13:40:50
RE: yes there is ample evidence, also are you saying the
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 16:07:57
RE: Do we have the right to kill animals?
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:18:34
So is your answer "no", humans don't have the right
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:20:27
Huh? The question was do animals have the right to life
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pickle
MU
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10/12 13:33:55
ok I get that you have a right to live, but what do
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 12:31:51
RE: ok I get that you have a right to live, but what do
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 12:33:59
what about land? that hasn't been created by any man
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 12:42:57
Land is a form of property.
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 12:48:22
so was the US Empire justified in its' acquisition of land?
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Ragnar Danneskjold
MU
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10/12 13:08:35
There are a few issues at play in your post.
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:11:35
how big is a homestead? (nm)
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:15:10
As big as the person can put to use and manage.
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:20:12
who determines what a person can use and manage
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:22:16
That person, and others who attempt to homestead land
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:24:54
What happens if multiple parties claim first use
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DC Jayhawk
KU
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10/12 13:31:14
They'll have to agree on an arbiter, or they will be stuck
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:35:26
For some, the incentive is for constant dispute to exist.
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DC Jayhawk
KU
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10/12 13:39:42
Well, to add to your hypothetical, there is a chance the
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 16:07:01
Can one fence off a million unclaimed acres, to raise
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TigerJackSwartz
MU
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10/12 13:28:05
Sure. Good luck to that person in
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ummmm
MU
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10/12 13:30:03