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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 25

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Wilfred Reilly

    Anti-gun control argument very frank that human life is expendable on behalf of putative "rights."https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1529555303938904065 …

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    Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630
    Replying to @questionsx1B
    I respect your point, and won't mute or any such, but there's a broader reality here: ALL people are expendable in service of ALL "God-given" major rights. The USA could have cut COVID deaths by half had we done Aussie-style lockdowns...but most would rightly see that as insane.
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      1. Cheryl Rofer‏ @CherylRofer May 25
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        We need to know how God gave these rights. On the eighth day of creation? On stone tablets? Which god?

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      1. Brian Smith‏ @GreenHombre May 25
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        We internalize car deaths in a very similar way. Always an "accident" never negligent homicide.

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      2. WindUpBird‏ @MickieMo May 25
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        God-given rights, as George Carlin said, are completely made up out of thin air and what someone says when they have nothing intelligent to say.

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      2. hamiltonsympatico‏ @hamiltonsympat1 May 25
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It has always been thus, Jeet. That's the entire meaning of "Give me liberty or give me death". In case you haven't noticed, EVERY decision government makes kills someone. You just aren't looking for the graveyard in the alternate cases.

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      3. hamiltonsympatico‏ @hamiltonsympat1 May 25
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        This doesn't at ALL mean that the individual deaths are not to be lamented, mourned, and loved. Or that the liberties fought for are always supreme over anything else. There's a discussion. But trading off rights with blood is the general founding philosophy of the country.

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      1. The Only Gary Johnson Stan‏ @colorblindk1d May 25
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        This is an argument used for essentially every single "right" we have. There are always trade offs. One can argue with the merits of the argument without pretending like this doesn't apply to most freedoms everywhere.

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      1. Dan Milway‏ @thrilway May 25
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        Really weird argument. He starts by claiming to do an amoral analysis, but he's weighing the value of lives against individual rights, both of which are inherently moral notions.

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      1. Robert Fletcher‏ @Bunker_fletch May 25
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        The goatee on that guy is horrible...

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      1. Ryan‏ @tnps47 May 25
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        But only that “right”. They’re not too concerned about other people rights

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