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(47,992 posts)for others.
Right or wrong, in your own choices, or right or wrong in THEIR own choices, if freedom means anything, it means that each person gets a chance to choose and to accept the consequences of having chosen.
You can claim your right to that choice in the name of ___________________________ , but what the fuck ever ________________ is, you have no right to choose for others. If you think _____________________ is so fucking great (the Constitution or WHATEVER it is) that its greatness gives you a right to choose for others what they will sacrifice to ______________________________ , then that isn't a right at all, because you have not allowed it for all. Rights by definition belong to everyone, so if there is a right to choose, it belongs to everyone and if that is prevented it's not a right. It is, instead, a privilege to decide what others will die for without asking them to choose and that's a privilege I did not grant you. You have not earned that privilege and you didn't ask for it. At least through our government, we have delegated SOME of that responsibility, imperfectly I ADMIT, but that's at least somewhat more collaborative than individuals freelancing on what risks the rest of us should give our lives for.