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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
No, they really aren't. You don't have a right to that which you didn't earn or weren't gifted. There's nothing rational about a 'right' to a space that someone else bought/inherited, someone else maintained, a space for which someone else bears responsibility. That's not 'just as valid', that's confiscation of someone's hard work. Maybe not even the work of the mean bigot down the street, but then from the hard work of the mean bigot's mean bigot father. This even goes for those heathen smokers as well.
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I think someone needs to stop and reflect upon the arbitrariness of his worldview before he goes around subjugating other folks arbitrarily defined rights beneath his arbitrarily defined rights.
The right to live somewhere without being unduly discriminated against is just as valid as the right to rent to whomever you want to. This is because neither of these things is actually a "right". They are just things that different folks think ought to be rights.
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And there's a word for taking stuff from people who are mean to you, solely because they're mean to you - and it's far from my first usage, but it continues to be fitting - it's childish.
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There's a word for this response, and it's "oversimplification".