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(...) They both equal natural "rights" to try to thrive and succeed. If both are in competition, the one that can reproduce more or faster, or finds a niche in a specific environment, may be the one who survives longer. Look at "Africanized" honey (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: someone has to say it...
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<snipped your statement> Well said, Kirby! Thanks. Dan (24 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The only thing I'd add to that is that it's not black & white - some creatures have what zoologists call "hierarchys" within groups (including the aforementioned lion). This, as I see it, is a sort of set of "rights" given to those higher up (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Can you give an example here? I think it's rather cold and callous to talk about unlimited rights to reproduce without regard to the fact that it's not practically possible to allow such rights to exist, nad that you're setting false (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Is this sexism?
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(...) Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. I agree that rights aren't "what you are capable of enforcing". That's too amoral. Rights derive from fundamentals about people (and other reasoning moral beings should some be constructed or discovered in (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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