"Who should win? Anyone who favors individual rights across the board, and on principle, because of the natural and objective human requirement to think and be free. In other words, rights come neither from God nor the government. Rights are a basic requirement of a human being. Without rights, there is no economic growth, no survival, no self-responsibility, no freedom to rise or fall as one’s own person in life.
When I think of freedom and rights, I think of skyscrapers, computer technology, life-saving medicine, the joy to read and think as you please, to be spiritual (religious or not) as you define it without any threat of force from others, and all the pleasure and comforts brought about by the intellectual and personal freedom permitted to exist, in those exceedingly rare periods of human history where human beings are left largely free."

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