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Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:00 PM
“That which has no existence cannot be destroyed—that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. But this rhetorical nonsense ends in the old strain of mischievous nonsense for immediately a list of these pretended natural rights is given, and those are so expressed as to present to view legal rights. And of these rights, whatever they are, there is not, it seems, any one of which any government can, upon any occasion whatever, abrogate the smallest particle.”
— Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 2
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Claire, perfunctory student. I sometimes blog when I am burdened with terrible ennui.
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