>From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
>From: "Russell Blackford" <RussellBlackford@bigpond.com>
> > *What* inalienable right to procreate?
>
>Good question. In the US, a man was recently ordered by a court of law not
>to
>father any more children.
I hate to even discuss Constitutionally inalienable rights because of the
tendency it has to compel certain folks to fly into a "gun rights" frenzy.
But I will say this: if a right is only inalienable if it cannot be legally
abridged under any circumstance, then there is no such beast. After all, I
think *everyone* would agree that there exists an inalienable right to life.
Not too long ago one Timothy McVeigh had his right to life, well, severely
abridged.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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