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Minnesota has some 'splainin to do.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
First of all, this business of hypothesizing a state of nature where there is no government is fantasy.
Second, there are no rights without some kind of government to define and enforce them. The common law -- which both of you seem to conceive of as having existed in some protean way in neolithic times -- was created by government. A lot of white men in robes and wigs. Not the legislature, but government all the same.
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By that statement, I take it that you are neither a religious person nor a believer in the "natural law" philosophy. It is entirely possible (though not meaningful on a practical level) to have rights that one can not enforce.
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