From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 14:03:53 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> (Example: I hope that people's verbal behavior will indeed
> change from blithely throwing the word "rights" around, and
> instead will either say that X approves (X may be a society)
> or speak of "legal rights". But what I am after is completely
> different than what you are after, I think. I want to change
> their belief about what exists, and then have their verbal
> behavior change as a consequence of that. You just want 'em
> to drop the word and say "I think" instead of "I believe"
> or something.)
>
Please clarify. Do I understand you correctly as saying that no
such thing as "natural rights" based on the nature of sentient
beings such as ourselves, exists?
- samantha
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