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Old 11-03-09, 03:29 PM   #1
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The right to -not- exercise a right?

The title sums it up pretty well...

If you have the right to X, do you have the right to NOT exercise that right?

Please explain your response.
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Old 11-03-09, 03:40 PM   #2
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

A right is a right. It's yours. You may engage in it at your leisure. The government is to provide no hindered to when and why you choose to exercise your rights; if ever.
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

Certainly you do, if you have a right to do a certain thing, you also have aright not to do it or not to have it apply to you. However, this is a personal thing, you can only make decisions for yourself and perhaps those you are legally in charge of in certain instances, you can never enforce or deny a right for another person. It's not your business.
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Old 11-03-09, 04:23 PM   #4
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

Of course you have the right to not exercise a right. Its not called the bill of requirements. If some liberal wishes to not got to church or have a firearm then that is his business.
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Old 11-03-09, 04:41 PM   #5
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

Of course I do. I have a right to keep and bear arms but I don't own any guns. I have a right to peaceably assemble, but I don't go to political protests.
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Old 11-03-09, 06:09 PM   #6
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

Cutting to the chase, yes, suicide should be legal.
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

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The title sums it up pretty well...

If you have the right to X, do you have the right to NOT exercise that right?

Please explain your response.
A right is there to be exercised to the extent that one is both willing and able to exercise it.
Some people don't even have the ability- let alone the willingness- to exercise all their rights to the fullest extent.
Yet they still have all their rights.
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Old 11-04-09, 01:02 AM   #8
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

Is it the right thing to do for a people to remove a 'right' or freedom if they will it democratically?

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Old 11-04-09, 01:06 AM   #9
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

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Cutting to the chase, yes, suicide should be legal.
Oh, I thought this was about mandatory health insurance.
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Old 11-04-09, 10:26 AM   #10
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Re: The right to -not- exercise a right?

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Oh, I thought this was about mandatory health insurance.
It is.

If you having a right means you have the right to not exercise said right, and if health care (that is, to buy health insurance) is a right, you must then be against the government requiring you to buy health insurance.
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