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Old 08-04-2008, 03:18 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Not to gov't, they got into power by backroom intrigues with conservative elites.
They were elected the largest Reichstag party democratically. That Hitler didn't become chancellor immediately was the choice of Hindenberg and the elites; that didn't last long though after the Reichstag fire.

I don't believe rights are natural either. They (negative rights) are merely the only civilised and rational way we can treat one another, and are the basis of justice.

Hume believed rights were natural because he himself had the intellect of an animal!
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