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[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:

>> 	Government, as it were, exists for but ONE single legitimate purpose:
>> the guaranty and protection of human rights.  That's it.  There is no
>> other legitimate function one can name.
> Guess it depends on how you define human rights.

	Natural human rights derive axiomatically from the acceptance of a 
single proposition, that all men hold equal just claims to life.  If one 
accepts this, all the rest follow axiomatically and apodictically.

	From this cardinal precept follows what I call the Canon of Individual 
Sovereignty:

	1. Each Individual holds sole and absolute title to his own life

This is what is referred to as "self ownership", meaning no other may 
own or exercise ownership rights over you.

	2. The absolute right to think and act in accord with one's Will.

The right to freedom of action and conscience.

	3. The right to acquire, keep, and dispose of property

The right to private property.

And the Cardinal Prohibition, constituting the single restriction by 
which we much all abide:

	4. No man may initiate force against or otherwise trespass upon the 
rights of others.

Commonly` known as the "non-aggression principle".

If you accept the Cardinal Precept, you must also accept that which 
follows from it.

If one does not accept the Precept then one must answer a rather 
daunting litany of very thorny questions.  For instance, if all men do 
not share equal just claims to life, whose are superior and whose 
inferior?  How is this determined?  Who judges?  By what standard do 
they judge?  Who determines the standard?  By what standard is the 
standard established and who determines that?  These questions go on and 
on endlessly when one rejects the equal claims precept.  It is 
inelegant, messy, and IMO intuitively and so very obviously false as to 
merit no further consideration.

If our claims are equal, our rights are.  That being the case, there is 
no man on the planet who may justifiably impose his will upon another 
without first having gained consent to do so.  If you reject this, 
please do let me know on what basis you so do.  We can take it offline 
if you prefer,  lest Russ' acid level rise to discomforting levels.