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From: tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Re: Rosenblatt
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 22:12:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 22:12:13 1985
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> . . . the rights available to any person (or organism) are limited only by
> abilities.  You have the "right" to do whatver you can do. . . [R. ROSEN]

If a person's rights are identical to their abilities, then child molestation,
rape, murder, robbery, etc. are all perfectly OK -- if the attack succeeds, the
attacker had the ability (and thus the right) to carry it out, while the victim
did not have the ability (and thus did not have the right) to avoid the attack.

I suspect that most of the people on the net (whether pro-life or pro-choice)
would disagree with this definition of rights.  I certainly do.

                                        -- Thomas Newton
                                           Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA