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[quote:9c1b9]By your logic then, I can take away YOUR freedom to live without feeling any remorse of feelings of guilt; by an "absence of right" I an only excercising control over something that has no definable value and thus can be seen as meaningless.

I wonder, if your logic would hold up were your family to be killed and those you loved, and their killer claimed this very thing.[/quote:9c1b9]

Correct. Ideally, we should all live by the golden rule but this isn't always a
possibility. For the correct functioning of society, however, we have made up
rules regarding the type of behavior most acceptable to as many people as
possible. Any more questions, Ed... or can I stick this dagger in your heart ?

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