From: afrodaddy
Yes!!!
Its reads one way but 'seemingly' portrays as another.
Just as love see no color, neither does discrimination!
Sometimes hidden, discreet, and startling at times this terrible injustice
befalls us all.
The term "Legal Rights" represnet so many people under so many circumstances.
Therfore, the qusetion really is will it ever end?
Will we see true justice? By who? When? Why?
Then suddenly a mirror approaches and all we see is our flesh.....
Think About It!!!
Carmen B.
From: jackson
I think it depends on the situation. Throughout history "Legal
rights" have preserved invididual rights (civil rights laws) and hindered
individual rights (Jim Crow laws, not allowing women and blacks the right
to vote). If you are innocent of a crime, and you are convicted and
jailed, your legal rights have been violated because you are falsely imprisoned.
If, however, you are guilty and found guilty, then your legal rights have
not been violated as long as you were allowed a lawyer, advised of your
rights, not mistreated (e.g. physically harmed), etc.
Therefore, I think "Legal rights" can be an oxymoron. Whether
it is or isn't depends on the situation. Sometimes the law does seem to
get in the way of a person's individual rights (e.g. the original verdict
in the Rodney King case), but I do think that the concept and theory of
"Legal rights" is needed, otherwise, in our present society, we all would
have no rights at all. (Rodney King was finally compensated and the
offending officers made accountable.) It would be the wild west all
over again, if we didn't have some semblance of law. I also believe
that those laws that do not adequately protect individual rights should
be changed.
From: cynthia
Legal rights are those inherent to a person within the parameters of
what is human and what is fair. It is a person's birth given rights
as an American citizen to have these inherent rights that we deem as legal...
SecretCover
From: gabriboi
No, I opt for a Pleonasm.
"legal" repeats the main aspect of "rights".
In an Oxymoron "legal" should have an opposite meaning to "rights"
or it would even be a word, whose meaning excludes the one of "rights".
From: Jess
No, it is not. Where there are nearly 6 billion people on one planet
, you need certain rules and regulations. Imagine what life would be like
without legal rights, which are there for the poor, the wealthy, the good
and the evil, male, female, you and me. We would not need them, if we lived
in a perfect world. But we don't.
And as we are in a not-perfect world, we are allowed to create terms
such as "legal rights". I think we are far better off discussing a term
like that instead of arguing about birth rights, which are even worse.
From: cali_boy
Of course.....I never knew that there was anything
LEGAL or ILLEGAL
about FREEDOM!!
Peace
From: teeeff2000
The term "legal rights" re-lies, or lies again, on CONtracts which
literally write the wrong...And then we 1der y so many marriages-
business and otherwise- end in divorce. Legal rights buy r CONfidence
at the cost of r freedom. When we allow such CONtradictory man-made
terms 2 dict8 r every day language, we literally bcome sentenced by
r sentences. The only way 2 avoid contradiction is 2 mbrace that
which is all-ncompassing...LOVE. When we deem Love r only right, we
can't go wrong.
~Terri
