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Re: Civil liberties, anyone?
Posted By: Fuzzpilz, on host 217.4.130.25
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 11:04:19
In Reply To: Re: Civil liberties, anyone? posted by Bo on Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 14:01:29:

> I think people think they have too many "rights". Humans only have rights because they are able to give themselves rights. If humans were not the dominant species on the earth, and another species hunted humans, we would not have rights, as we would not be able to secure them.
>
Correct. There's no such thing as rights, or justice or mercy for that matter, or anything else of the sort. They don't exist anywhere outside our heads, and that's precisely why we (that is, humanity in general) should not forget them.

Fuzzpilz

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