Re: A very basic printing question re XY3

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

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From: "Harry Binswanger" 

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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: A very basic printing question re XY3





Immigration barriers violate human rights? Does the lock on your front
door violate my rights?


No, but if YOU put a lock on my front door when I want to invite a
foreigner into to my house, that does violate my rights. That's what
immigration law is and does. It prevents property owners from giving
foreigners access to (including sale to) their property. It treats
foreigners as criminals (kinda like your inteded couterexample).



Did the Palestinians have no right to Palestine, where their people had
lived for 1,000 years or more?
Did the Indians have no rights to the Americas?


Essentially, "no" to both cases. There are no collective rights, only the
rights of individuals.

But we digress.

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx




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