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Rights come with responsibilities

We hear a lot of people talk about Rights. As in God-Given Rights. Sure, there are Universal Declarations of Human Rights issued by the United Nations as far back as 1948, yes 71 years ago.

Rights are very much front and center in the American Declaration of Independence, including "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" from July 4, 1776, yes 243 years ago.

Rights without responsibilities cannot logically exist, much as the proverbial Free Lunch.  Every Ying has its Yang, every Darkness its corresponding Light, as inseparable and indivisble as the North and South poles of a magnet, even as Newton's Third Law: "Newton's third law is: For every action, there is an equal andopposite reaction. The statement means that in every interaction, there is a pair offorces acting on the two interacting objects. ... Forces always come in pairs - equaland opposite action-reaction force pairs."

Too much talk about Rights, not enough explanation of who is stepping up to the Responsibilities that go along.    To speak only of Rights without clarifying the linked Reponsibility is unbalanced and unnatural, to address half of the issue and ignoring the most important other half, of the Responsibility.

I hope this will be an open discussion about the merits of the ideas, and avoid personal attacks.
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