[quote=The Nexerus]^ What if what you're telling someone they can't do or be is itself infringing upon the rights of others?[/quote]

Simple answer: A right is guaranteed for a sentient entity so long as it does not infringe upon another sentient entity's rights and freedoms, whereupon ultimately what is determined to be an infringement is settled in a court of law based on the most reasonable answers on what information is available on a case by case basis, where the defendant is innocent until proven guilty.

It is a complex system in which the largest amounts of rights and freedoms are handed out where it is possible and for all parties equally--white or black, man or woman, left or right wing, but otherwise, the premise is pretty simple: You're allowed to own a gun, you're not allowed to steal a gun from someone else (infringing on their right to private ownership) or to shoot someone else with that gun except in self-defense (infringing on the right to live).

Is it perfect? No. Is it admirable and the closest thing we have to a moral system that allows the largest variety of people--majorities and minorities alike--to coexist as equals? Yes.

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Though I actually disagree with Tempest about taxing corporations--corporate taxes do nothing to large corps and hurt small businesses. Large corporations just pass the tax along to the consumer. Lets say there's a bread tax that taxes every loaf of bread one dollar--major corporations who make and sell bread will simply increase the price of bread by one dollar and ten cents (because anytime they think they can cut the consumer to bleed them for profits, [i]they will[/i], not particularly evil, just coldly efficient.) Meanwhile the small business has a harder time competing with the larger one because now they have to increase prices to match the corporation taxation, which in turn drives more customers away from them and towards large corporations.

Corporate taxes don't work. We simply have them now because it's another way to tax the individual citizen through large corporations and take as much from small businesses as possible... Because for some reason, your country likes to run its tax system [i]like a business[/i]... It makes no sense to me. I don't think your government has any idea what it wants to do with taxes or what it even can do with taxes. I agree that its highly corrupt and run by a bunch of Neanderthals in suits--half of which are probably senile or raging homophobes in the closet.