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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - [b]when does your freedom impinge on mine? [/b]Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise. [/quote]

Seriously think about the bolded. What right do you have to force labor?[/quote]

The rights of one person *always* imposes a burden on others. It's the nature of rights. As Jeremy Bentham put it:

[quote]Rights and obligations, though distinct and opposite in their nature, are simultaneous in their origin, and inseparable in their existence. According to the nature of things, the law cannot grant a benefit to any, without, at the same time, imposing a burden on some one else; or, in other words, a right cannot be created in favor of any one, without imposing a corresponding obligation on another. In what manner is a right of property in land conferred on me? By imposing upon every body, except myself the obligation not to touch its produce.[/quote][/quote]

Quoting a political radical is exactly what I expected. If you force labor on A to supply B, you are advocating for slavery[/quote]

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