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Quote by: Pale RIder The founding documents of the US. If you live somewhere else, perhaps humans don't have an inalienable right to live in which case, I am sorry for you. But here, it is encoded into our very founding documents. |
The question I posed was meant to produce an answer as to why the right to life is inalienable not if you have a right to life. Certainly we here in Canada have a constitutional right to life, liberty blaleelah but, as anyone can concieve, the interpretation or intrinistic validity of legislation is not always absolute.
The right to life is made important by the society that is able to will and sustain that right. Life is a privelege, because/and it is existentially worthless as long as the metaphysical question of 'why are we?' remains unanswered. So if life is not a universal absolute value, and it is safe to say that some life (at the very least) is expendable for purposes of anthropological survival, what makes the right to life 'inalienable'?