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Re: The Reason Democrats Are Backing Gay Rights and Marijuana Legalization
The very core principle of rights is that everyone has the absolute right to be “free” from aggression in their own person and property. Therefore, any actions towards the person or property of another is a violation of their rights. If all men have a right to their person and property the question is can the government remove these rights by either violating their person or property or by simply failing to protect them. The answer is of course no, because as should be clear by the above statement, it is their existence alone that grants them the authority over their own person and facilities that enables them to acquire property. Any sort of aggression towards the person or property of someone will be an act of aggression, be that by government, which is nothing more than a collection of men, or by any citizen of the world. The action is the same, the results are the same, and thus, it is no more possible for the government to act aggressively towards you and not violate your rights than it is for any other person or body of persons. There is no difference regardless of what people might pretend between the actions of government and the actions of any other man, and it is therefore paramount that the government only act in the defense of peoples rights, much like you can act in defense of your neighbors rights.
So to answer your post, no, there is no one but yourself that is confused here.
You are confusing the physical ability to perform an action with a right.
The very core principle of rights is that everyone has the absolute right to be “free” from aggression in their own person and property. Therefore, any actions towards the person or property of another is a violation of their rights. If all men have a right to their person and property the question is can the government remove these rights by either violating their person or property or by simply failing to protect them. The answer is of course no, because as should be clear by the above statement, it is their existence alone that grants them the authority over their own person and facilities that enables them to acquire property. Any sort of aggression towards the person or property of someone will be an act of aggression, be that by government, which is nothing more than a collection of men, or by any citizen of the world. The action is the same, the results are the same, and thus, it is no more possible for the government to act aggressively towards you and not violate your rights than it is for any other person or body of persons. There is no difference regardless of what people might pretend between the actions of government and the actions of any other man, and it is therefore paramount that the government only act in the defense of peoples rights, much like you can act in defense of your neighbors rights.
So to answer your post, no, there is no one but yourself that is confused here.