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I'm curious about the differing definitions of what a right is that are often employed on these boards.
A right is either: Something specifically mentioned as a right in the constitution.
As in the right to bear arms.
Or: Something that is important in a particular belief system.
As in the right to smoke in hooters or drive an suv.
I feel like these two definitions aren't really consistent. Using the first, of course driving isn't a right. Bicycles weren't even invented in 1787, much less automobiles.
Using the second definition, everything is a right and the word becomes meaningless. Using this definition, the desire to define driving as a right is just as valid as the desire to define crapping in the street as a right. This definition is the result of confusing actual rights with rights that lay strictly in the realm of wishful thinking.
The real question of the op should be "Do you think driving should be a right?" because under any kind of meaningful definition it isn't.
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