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Originally Posted by peter12
As stated above, questions of the good within a liberal democracy can only really be "solved" by appealing successfully to natural rights. In the case of straight marriage this is so clearly cut, that it's not even a useful example for the discussion.
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Ok, for you since the last example was a little to confusing, lets change it to something that doesn't violate any natural rights.
A car and a truck who want to make little car babies. Fortunately for our example, cars and trucks have no natural rights, so they won't interfere with understanding the real issue at hand, because getting over that hurdle was a real problem.
So a mechanic installs a AI brain into the car and into the truck. they make wonderful car and truck babies, and grow to a large population. Then in a, Micheal Bay directed, cross between Terminator: Salvation and Maximum Overdrive they take over the planet and kill all those people bitching about human rights.
Now that we have just cars and trucks living happily, making car and truck babies, a couple cars, A Smart Car and a Mini Cooper if you are wondering, decide they want to stop putting their tailpipe in the box of the truck and instead want to put it in the hatch of the car. All the Model T and Ford Fairlane cars and trucks are appalled and they start doing crazy stuff like not letting the Smart cars get gas at the stations on Main Street and they start forcing the Mini Coopers off the road and into the bridge embankment.
Things carry on for years like this, and the old Model T cars begin to die and the Ford Fairlanes are so out of their engines that they can't even take a oil change without someone to hold their dipstick for them. Now, some of the other cars and trucks start to realize that it really isn't fair to the Smart Cars and Mini Coopers, so they start to treat them like regular cars.
Eventually, enough people support the Smart Cars and Mini Coopers that they start to get the ability to go to the gas station on Main Street and are not quite as afraid to take the turnpike late at night. However, what the Smart Car and the Mini Cooper really want to do is park in the same garage and be able to visit each other while they are getting body work done at the local shop. However, there are still many old cars that can't even get 2 miles to the gallon, who are bellowing near toxic exhaust as they putter along the road, who have just enough clout to stop them from doing this.
So the Mini Cooper and Smart Cars don't have the same rights as the other cars, so wouldn't that be unfair? Shouldn't we allow them to be able to use the same garage? After all it is a double garage!