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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
your right to life is absolute, up until you break a law that violates anothers right. If you violate anothers right, then you are subject to fines and imprisonment, even death through due process of law. That is not a limitation or restriction. It's a fine line, but a very visible one. in other words, through due process of law, you lose a right. Through limits, you have less of a right.
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Fair enough, but this means that rights are not absolute. There are no degrees of absolution (absoluteness?). If rights were absolute, Americans could not be imprisoned nor sentenced to death—ever—not legally, anyway.
That said, other rights must have similar potential to be "lost." For example, one's right to bear arms could be lost (or otherwise limited) if a "due process of the law" determines that the number or type of arms is unreasonable. How does the recent SCOTUS ruling factor in, in this respect?
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 12-09-2008 at 12:44 PM..
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