On 9 Jun 2009 at 12:48, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > "Rights", including "property rights", are not "natural", they are > "intellectual". And as intellectual patterns they derive from the > culture from whence they came. Socially we craft civil governance in > accord with our intellectual patterns, to give them legitimacy and > authority. "Rights" derive from man, not the natural world.
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