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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Let me guess, none of you looked up the word 'privilege', eh.
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Webster's Dictionary (
www.m-w.com) defines 'right' as this:
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1 : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval
2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled <voting rights> <his right to decide> b (1) : the interest that one has in a piece of property -- often used in plural <mineral rights> (2) plural : the property interest possessed under law or custom and agreement in an intangible thing especially of a literary and artistic nature <film rights of the novel>
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(and a whole bunch more... bold emphasis mine)
So, something that is moral... not driving. privilege that one is justly entitled.. also not driving.
'privelege' is defined as this:
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: a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor :
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A right that is granted as a benefit, advantage, or favor. So, this means, even in the definition, that it is not universal.
As has been said before, driving is a privilege, not a right. It is not something that everyone should expect to be able to do but something that those that are fit and capable should expect to be able to do. Sometimes that is a small distinction, but is a distinction none-the-less.