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Originally Posted by fiddler
Well it goes back to what I was saying. Your rights end where mine begin. For instance, I can stand there and punch a brick wall all day long if I feel like it. I'm only causing harm to my hand, and nobody will probably give a flip. But the second my fist connects with someone's face, there's a problem. Because I exceeded my rights.
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"Your fist ends where my nose begins" sounds nice but it doesn't always work out perfectly. Like there are a ton of situations in the real world where two people or entities each have the "right" to do something and their rights come into conflict. It's why one of the major things courts have to do is balance people's rights against each other. It's also (one of the reasons) why a lot of really smart critical legal theorists would tell you that rights are a construct and our perception of them as these absolute, real things is a problem.