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Old 10-18-2006, 04:10 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by hoyacoug View Post
You are missing the basic point. Whether or not rights may be restricted later on is not debatable. Of course they can, depending on, as you put it, a person's "incivility." However, the determination of "incivility" must only be made AFTER due process has been given to that person, which is why due process is the linchpin of all natural rights. To remove due process is to concede that our rights flow from government.
That point of argument doesn't flow for me.

Rights don't flow from government; certain privileges do.

However, recognition by the entity of another's mature rights is simply a group cognitive feature, not a recognition from whence the rights flow.
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