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Re: Did animals have rights before we invented rights?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 4 Jul 2001 02:07:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> BTW : the questions you posed did remind me of an American stereotype we
> often see here. What I mean are those who say that they have "god given"
> rights. I always think that, in an agnostic culture, by saying they have a
> "god given" right to do anything they simply are saying that they are
> unwilling to justify themselves or their situation.
Well, I'm an athiest, so I just internally translate anything to do with God
into a similar sentence something like "my belief". So god-given rights
would become something like "the rights I believe in" (roughly speaking). I
think athiests also try to justify themselves, they just don't (generally)
use God in the justification.
ROSCO
PS: I don't believe in agnostics, either, but that's a thread for another day...
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