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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:23:02 -0700
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: legitimacy of core (Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object)
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At 11:18 PM 2/5/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>There's nothing "natural" about rights.  The only thing natural is the
>animal kingdom, and there are no rights there.

Your personal opinion. The US founding founders were strongly
influenced by Locke and others.

>And don't bother citing the US constitution.   The US did not give
>rights to a substantial part of its population for nearly 200 years
>after independence.

Are you suggesting, then, that users of FreeBSD should have
as few rights as slaves?

That's it, Rahul; you're finally going off the deep end.

--Brett


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