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To: Gelato
Unalienble rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, cannot be rescinded by definition.

I can't rescind my right to property? How can I give someone a birthday present???

(Hint: consent)

80 posted on 04/22/2002 11:09:38 AM PDT by freeeee
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To: freeeee
I can't rescind my right to property? How can I give someone a birthday present???

Actually, to give your property away is to exercise your right of property. Your right of property is not just to hold something in your hand, it is to dispose of it according to your will. That, by definition, is what the right to own and control property is.

To follow your logic, you should be able to throw away your right to liberty. This, Alan Keyes also states, is impossible if this right is unalienable. For, if you throw away your freedoms, and you do everything you can to undermine the laws that protect your own liberty, you are not just affecting yourself, you are affecting all other persons.

93 posted on 04/22/2002 11:38:43 AM PDT by Gelato
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