To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, A Short History of England (1917).
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G.K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, A Short History of England (1917).
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And, indeed, to be wrong in doing something is not to have no right to do it.
Only a totalitarianism would reduce our rights to actions that are either good or ethically neutral.