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I was listening to a debate today and the topic of natural rights vs legal rights came up. One of the debaters stated that he didn't care about natural rights, rather he cared about legal rights because, "If your right is not protected by the government, then you don't have that right"?

Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Me and my current girlfriend have been dating in a steadily relationship going on for about a year. Our relationship started as a rebound both of us, literally we both met on Tinder. But we both come to care for each other and we made it work our personalities and behavior melds well together and we've only had two disagreements both times neither of us raised our voices.

But to some up my problem shortly, we have very different politics and different life goals. We literally spent the entire year purposely not getting onto the conversation of politics because we knew that were so extremely different from each other.

Some examples is that she wants to adopt kids while I want to actually have my own (at least one), I've actually given adopting some serious thought and I like the idea but I would still at least like to have one of my own kids. She's also a Progressive, kind of socialist, and anti-capitalist while I am a capitalist and independent. So you can imagine the wide variety of topics that we disagree on. There are other things too.

We finally did touch on our political differences sometime last week and she said something that made me want to get up and walk out on her. Of course, I didn't because I'm not petty but what she said really did hurt me. I felt like she didn't even have any respect for my opinion, her attitude was "I'm right you're wrong" without even having the full conversation, let alone actually getting into a real debate.

Let me reiterate that this is NOT meant to be a political question so please no political debates about either of our alignments. What I'm asking is that if you have extremely different core values can a long-term relationship work? Especially if one of you doesn't even wish to be open-minded enough to have the debate. To be completely honest I'm not sure if I could raise a family in the future by tiptoeing around certain values and beliefs.

To be honest I'm very conflicted.