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Originally Posted by filtherton
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.
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Or someone needs to reflect upon the baseless application of the label 'arbitrary'.
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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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I'm trying to figure out if you mean something other than "different people have different ideas, therefore all ideas are equal". Or "all is arbitrary, so let's do things my way".
I consider a right to be the moral ownership of a particular ability or object. That is what I mean when I say 'right'. When you say that people should be forced to rent to other people, why do you not then consider that a right? What do you mean when
you say 'right'?
Try to make me understand how "neither of these are rights" isn't just a meaningless distraction.
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There's a word for this response, and it's "oversimplification".
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Feel free to provide me with a counterexample.