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DancingConstellation t1_jeavlpw wrote

Reply to comment by o_-o_-o_- in I read an article about Missouri’s House cutting funding to their libraries and it made me really sad. by poopmaester41

I didn’t give a definition of rights.

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o_-o_-o_- t1_jeax2nm wrote

Not structurally speaking? You'll have to elaborate if not.

You said:

>Rights are negative, not positive.

I think this is as arbitrary as defining a reference point or normalizing chosen constants to 1. Maybe even more arbitrary than that. Your focus on that structural definition implies to me that we have very different focus in the first place.

It's also outside of the point I was discussing, and I didn't claim you defined rights (edit: fair, i did use the word definition initially), just that we have different positions on what little we've discussed on them.

And so the conversation veers further and becomes further confused...

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