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Duty to Live - Seymour vs Locke

by Dieuwe de Boer · 13/12/2017 12pm
While David Seymour continued his pushed for euthanasia over the last year, I've been reading John Locke's Two Treatises on Government. I had never read the original source of this philosophy from the Father of Liberalism himself. While reading the works of John Locke, I realised that most professed classical liberals probably haven't either.
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What is a Right?

by Hayden Macpherson · 23/02/2017 8pm
It is common nowadays to speak of "rights" to any number of things: abortion, affordable healthcare, state benefits, etc. We are even told that certain groups (and straight white cis men are not among them) have "rights" to nebulous concepts like "a voice," "respect," "inclusion," or even "love."