On 10/19/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/05, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Read the sentence again. It doesn´t matter. There will always be > > some group who regarded as insignificant, but does that give them any > > special rights? > > which brings me back to my statement of yesterday. groups should not > have rights. when they do, we get into numbers games. "my group is > bigger than yours, so we have more rights" or "our rights are > paramount to yours..." > > it's most notable that nazi germany had a concept of group rights, and > that jews were "the minority". > > if we took the attitude that there are certain inalienable rights that > all human beings everywhere are entitled to, such as the right to > education, basic health care, clean water, THE RIGHT TO NOT BE BOMBED > TO SMITHEREENS, then we wouldn't need to have this discussion. > > -frank
btw, dag, the above post wasn't directed at you or anyone else in particular... -ft -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
