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Date:      Wed, 05 Feb 2003 23:10:49 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: legitimacy of core (Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object)
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030205230831.029f6520@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20030206032630.GA4203@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030205195726.00e5b5a0@localhost>

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At 08:26 PM 2/5/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>People don't have much choice in their citizenship.  An American-born
>citizen didn't have a choice in that (yes, one can emigrate, but
>that's not such an easy option).  So it is fair that citizens are
>given certain rights.

That's not the theory at all. The theory is that rights are
"natural." Read the preamble to the US Constitution.

>Only someone as pompous as Brett 

Argumentum ad hominem -- and bogus.

>would try to extend that idea to "members of the FreeBSD community".  
>None of us are forced to be part
>of this community.

In short, your thesis is that if you can choose to leave, you
have no rights? That's REALLY bogus.

--Brett


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