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 Originally Posted by boost
For essentially none of history was the primacy of the individual held to be true. Limited individual rights serve the interests of the group.
At times these rights have been fought for, tooth and nail, using primacy of the individual arguments. I'm glad these fights were fought and that we get to enjoy the individual rights they were fought over, but the success of limited rights is not evidence in support of the primacy of the individual.
Men are born with rights. To the degree to which those rights are limited, men live in tyranny, and right now, you're defending tyranny.
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