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Religious Rights ARE Individual Rights

Posted by Dante on 2011-December-28 21:00:36 EST, Wednesday

In reply to Religious rights do not trump individual rights posted by Markaba on 2011-December-28 20:17:01 EST, Wednesday

And just because one class of hooey claims to be religious and another claims to be secular is no grounds to believe the claim.

There are only two distinctions worth considering; whether a right is positive or negative, and non-falsifiability.

All rights which can be exercised by being left alone and which make no claims on others should be allowed.

However, if one INSISTS on having a State and giving representatives with a monopoly on the initiation of force the authority to compel behaviour, then the results of that behaviour ought to be the sort which could be empirically evaluated, so that laws might be modified or repealed without regard to beliefs which cannot be tested.

Needless to say, a lot of legislation which seems secular is actually faith-based upon evaluation.

However, all this is moot if we cease to treat some positive rights as trumping individual rights.

Dante

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Re: Religious Rights ARE Individual Rights - Markaba on 2011-December-29 12:10:52 EST, Thursday - (0 / 0 / 16)
- Positive to positive, negative to ground. - Dante on 2011-December-29 10:47:54 EST, Thursday - (1 / 0 / 15)
  - Re: Positive to positive, negative to ground. - Markaba on 2011-December-30 02:58:09 EST, Friday - (0 / 0 / 14)
    - The Balance Sheet as Morality - Dante on 2011-December-30 07:34:50 EST, Friday - (1 / 0 / 9)
      - Re: The Balance Sheet as Morality - Markaba on 2011-December-31 09:20:49 EST, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 7)
        
        One Clarification - Dante on 2012-January-02 18:03:53 EST, Monday - (1 / 0 / 1)
        
        Okay, thanks for the clarification--NT - Markaba on 2012-January-02 19:45:28 EST, Monday - (1 / 0 / 0)
        
        Mea Maxima Culpa - Dante on 2012-January-02 07:55:29 EST, Monday - (1 / 0 / 3)
        
        Thank you - Markaba on 2012-January-02 08:19:43 EST, Monday - (1 / 0 / 2)
        
        If this goes any further.... - Dante on 2012-January-02 08:24:28 EST, Monday - (1 / 0 / 1)
        
        Aw, come on, give us a kiss . . . :-) --NT - Markaba on 2012-January-02 08:42:51 EST, Monday - (1 / 0 / 0)
        
        Correction - read this first! - Markaba on 2011-December-31 18:48:07 EST, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 0)
      - And... 'First, Do No Harm - Dante on 2011-December-30 18:06:04 EST, Friday - (1 / 0 / 0)
    - Re: Positive to positive, negative to ground. - lgsinmyheart on 2011-December-30 06:11:51 EST, Friday - (1 / 0 / 2)
      - I will call it: - lgsinmyheart on 2011-December-30 06:58:59 EST, Friday - (1 / 0 / 1)
        
        LOL - Dante on 2011-December-30 07:47:06 EST, Friday - (1 / 0 / 0)
    - As far as we know - Aramis on 2011-December-30 03:14:04 EST, Friday - (1 / 0 / 0)