We've been down this road before, dk. If rights were absolute, then prisoners would have firearms in their cells with them and Bradley Manning wouldn't be in a cell at all.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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