quote:The problem with your argument Rabbit, is that it forces an historical perspective to a political situtation. Politics is about the here and future. Often political positions are created because of experiences in the past. The only way to use history to explore politics is to explain why something will or won't work.
That's not a problem with her argument, because she's refuting a philosophical argument about the origins of particular rights. That necessarily involves looking into the past.
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