Which is more important to you, individual rights ...

PB-

Boy, this is deja vu all over again. This has to be situational. If I want to stay up all night and keep the lights on in my aprtment, that should be my right. But, group rights state that I cannot crank my stereo up.

I should be able to drive wherever I want to go, but I need to obey the traffic laws.

And the list goes on, and the list goes on.

JayR

I think that we need to be very concerned about group rights.  I believe that democracy is about the greatest good for the greatest number.  I also believe that individual rights are worthy of our concern.  When we protect the least of us, we are actually protecting the most of us. 

51% to 49% for the individual.  Sorry if corny PB, is how ah feels today. 

L

Individual rights should always come first therefore it will then pay forward to groups rights.  It's called respect.  Please understand that if you always be who you should be, do what you should do morally then you are a person who will turn things around if it is one person at a time. 

Hi Profitbob,

    I believe in individual right as long as it won't impinge on the rights of other people.

I have the right to choose my friends but those are supposed to be friends who don't do any harm to others.

I have the right to work hard, earn a good living, maintain a comfortable lifestyle, but I won't appreciate it if a group of people think that they have the right to take what I worked for just because they don't like others to have more than they have.

I believe in my right to pursue my dream to be financially well off without the fear that I will be taxed heavily just because there are others who don't prosper because they don't have the drive to succeed and because of their sheer  laziness.

 I believe in my individual right to live in a society that still believes in free enterprise and I hope to God that our country will  not become a Socialist country.

DB-

Good answer!

JayR

Thank you JayR.

I believe in sharing only with those people who can't work due to disability, the poor elderly population, the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill.  There are so many young people who are receiving government money and I think that they should go to work and make their own money to support themselves.

    A lot of them don't have a right to have 5-6 kids and then be on Medicaid and government assistance.  We are being taxed too much because there are those who believe that having more kids will bring them more money.  I just don't understand the kind of mentality that these people have.  No wonder they want to have a Socialist country  and elect a man who has Socialist leanings because practically everything is spoonfed to them.  This is becoming a lazy, unmotivated society and we are doomed if they will succeed to elect a Socialist President.

AMEN!

These people remind me of the married woman living in Ostrava whose husband was very frequently not home. She would wring her hands and ask, "Where is my Czech?"

JayR