Still MORE on "What is a Right?"

Still MORE on "What is a Right?"

A new (to me) blogger at a new (to me) blog, Gun Values Board, linked to my recent CNN post, and through that link I found an interesting piece by Sailorcurt at Captain of a Crew of One: First time for everything. Curt says:

If your only argument is "that's not a right because it's not in the Constitution", all I have to do is show you the 9th Amendment and your argument goes out the window.

So...what DOES constitute a right?

It's very simple really. A right is something that you can do, obtain, produce or provide that does not infringe upon another's rights and requires no outside intervention for you to do so.

That's a different approach than I took in the eight-part "What is a Right?" series over there

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on the left sidebar, but he makes a good argument for his position.

It's interesting (to me) that discussions of this type are still going on 200+ years after the ratification of the Constitution.

Thanks for the link, Nancy!