Author: Thomas Fleming

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23 Jul, 2023

“I Got Rights,” Conclusion

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Most talk of morality and law is now reduced to a question of rights.  Leftists talk about rights to privacy, gender equality, and minority rights, and—more recently—of the right not to be offended by other people’s prejudices, while Libertarians talk about the right of labor and goods to pass unhindered over borders—to say nothing of rights to life and property and the right to say or publish or film anything you like, no matter whom it offends or what moral harm it causes.  

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21 Jul, 2023

“I Got Rights,” Part III (of IV)

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Educated Americans believe, for the most part, that revenge–even when it can be excused or mitigated–is always wrong.  In legal terms, right—by which I mean the principle of rightness in good behavior—almost always involves the assertion and protection of rights, which are something like the 10 Commandments or Plato’s Ideas or the Natural Law of the Stoics:

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19 Jul, 2023

I Got Rights, Part II

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Then what does an American citizen do when he discovers that his civil rights are not protected by governments who prefer to protect the universal human rights of illegal alines and criminals?  Consider the situation in which the hero of a country song (Hank Williams, Jr.’s, “I Got Rights”) finds himself.

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24 Jun, 2023

The Titanic and the Banality of Evil

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Barack Obama has managed to sneak back into the news.  The occasion was an interview with Christiane Amampour in which he compared the modest media response to the death of 700 illegal immigrants, whose boat sank before they could enter Greece, with the hysteria over the fate of 7 rich tourists who tried to visit the Titanic.