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Re:Chariot Wins First Round of San Francisco's Private Trans... by jdavis703 on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:54PM (#10207066)
Rights are an arbitrary idea. Simply emphasizing that something is or isn't a right is tantamount to writing a fictional book. Even something as literally life altering as whether your own government (assuming you live in a democracy) can rightfully kill you or not is arbitrarily decided [0].

0: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/10/former-navy-c...

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Re:Chariot Wins First Round of San Francisco's Private Trans... by argonaut on Sunday September 13, 2015 @01:46AM (#10210477)
Look. I work in the SOMA neighborhood of SF. That doesn't give me the right to live there (and I don't - it's too expensive, so I live in the south bay).
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