Its obvious that there is only a handful of poeple on this forum that understand natural rights and have only ever being able to focus their energy on explaning the bare bone basics of them. Nowhere that I can think of have we ever gone beyond that and I think its becoming a weakness for this forum and the Macedonian cause in general. This is why I want to pose the following question in terms that are of utmost importance to Macedonia and take the whole issue of natural rights up a notch.
Obviously there is an ongoing conflict in Macedonia between the Macedonians and Albanians. In a nutshell, Macedonians claim a right to the territorial integrity of the state and governance over that state on the basis of democratic principles/majority rule. Albanians claim a right to self-determination (while this claim does not necessarily imply outright independence, it does imply a level of self-governance that we are generally opposed to).
What do you think? Whose claim is legitimate and why? If both are legitimate claims, whose claim outweighs the other and why?
Obviously there is an ongoing conflict in Macedonia between the Macedonians and Albanians. In a nutshell, Macedonians claim a right to the territorial integrity of the state and governance over that state on the basis of democratic principles/majority rule. Albanians claim a right to self-determination (while this claim does not necessarily imply outright independence, it does imply a level of self-governance that we are generally opposed to).
What do you think? Whose claim is legitimate and why? If both are legitimate claims, whose claim outweighs the other and why?
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