re: #166 Fozzie Bear

How you view “rights” really is an abstract philosophical concept. But I could make the argument that “rights” which only exist in codified law are meaningless as well. Using a slavery example again, there existed in the US free states and slave states. In your view, a black person in a free state had the right to freedom, but if he walked across the wrong state boundary, he no longer had his right to freedom. I would say this sort of right is meaningless. It is a permission, not a right.