http://maxvan.vox.com/library/posts/tags/legal+rights/page/1/ When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. -Joe Strummer en Vox Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:08:57 -0700 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss legal rights http://maxvan.vox.com/library/post/yet-another-sign.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Maxvan) http://maxvan.vox.com/library/post/yet-another-sign.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://maxvan.vox.com/library/post/yet-another-sign.html?_c=feed-rss-full Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:08:57 -0700 <p><a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/06/states_try_to_d.html">http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/06/states_try_to_d.html</a></p> <p>I chose the USA Today article because the NY Times article requires registration. But I read the NY Times article.</p> <p>Look, this one is simple:if you take away the right to vote based upon a medical condition that the state determines, you effectively have shot through the right to vote at all, because let&#39;s say that you get declared mentally &quot;incompetant&quot; tomorrow: then, you cannot vote.</p> <p>I&#39;m not much of a libertarian, but it seems to me that giving the state the right to determine your state of being is a mistake. Likewise, allowing the state to decide life or death for individual citizens is a mistake. I thought it was all about &quot;Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness&quot;. Guess we&#39;ve devolved into a society of pointing fingers and restrictions, and the pursuit of personal power. </p> <p>Stalin, somewhere, is smiling.</p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxvan.vox.com/library/post/yet-another-sign.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41426798b3c7f00d09e799d57be2b?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> mental health legal rights