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What Exactly Are These Things Called "Rights"? |
human rights, fundamental rights, esp. those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights to speak, associate, work, etc. [1785-95] -- Random House Websters Unabridged Dictionary for Windows, Version 3 "Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as "the right to enslave". -- Ayn Rand "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson "Since Man has inalienable individual rights, this means that the same rights are held, individually, by every man, by all men, at all times. Therefore, the rights of one man cannot & must not violate the rights of another. For instance: a man has the right to live, but he has no right to take the life of another. He has the right to be free, but no right to enslave another. He has the right to choose his own happiness, but no right to decide that his happiness lies in the misery ( or murder or robbery or enslavement ) of another. The very right upon which he acts defines the same right of another man, & serves as a guide to tell him what he may or may not do." -- Ayn Rand, TextBook of Americanism |
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The people who would be most interested in this project would likely be Objectivists ( the Objectivism of Ayn Rand ), libertarians, Jeffersonians ( people interested in the individual rights oriented philosophy of Thomas Jefferson ) or classic Conservatives and various other individualists - people interested in individualism as opposed to coercive collectivism. If you're a compatible individualist, please give this site a link at your web page! Copyright 1995-2007 Planetary Bill of Rights Project. All rights reserved. |