Difference between revisions of "Anarchical Fallacies/Nonsense on stilts"
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| − | | text = Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense -- nonsense upon stilts. [...] Right, the substantive right, is the child of law; from real laws come real rights; from imaginary laws, from laws of nature, fancied and invented by poets, rhetoricians, and dealers in moral and intellectual poisons, come imaginary rights, a bastard brood of monsters.... | + | | text = Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense -- '''nonsense upon stilts'''. [...] Right, the substantive right, is the child of law; from real laws come real rights; from imaginary laws, from laws of nature, fancied and invented by poets, rhetoricians, and dealers in moral and intellectual poisons, come imaginary rights, a bastard brood of monsters.... |
| cite = [[Jeremy Bentham]], "{{Link |Anarchical Fallacies}}" | | cite = [[Jeremy Bentham]], "{{Link |Anarchical Fallacies}}" | ||
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