| Pale Rider, my argument hinges on this - where do we get these natural rights from?
Answer - nowhere. These "self evident truths" are ideas that were mutually agreed upon by many, if not most, people. They are not something that any person has a right to based solely on their existence, it is a convention that came about over several thousand years. Saying that they are "natural" was a result of religoius influence and the ignorance and idealism of the times. |