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Quote by: phoenix_fire The idea of having rights is merely the greed of wanting to posess the intangible. |
Phoenix I dont get what your saying. Can you clarify? People have two types of rights. Natural rights and rights granted by the state. For example:
Some people claim that there are other things, besides breathing, so closely tied to humanity that they cannot be relinquished. The founders of the United States of American claim that "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" are other natural rights, not based on any moral reasoning, but simply because they are a "self-evidently" part of what it is to be a human being. They called these rights "unalienable" which means exactly what it sounds like: they cannot be alienated! We don't need anyone to reinterpret these words. They mean exactly what they sound like. That's why they were written that way. --Zephram Stark 19:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
The Declaration Of Independance states : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men."
The function of government is simple ( well it's supposed to be
) It is supposed to protect these rights and defend the citizens. Unfortunatly this is not the case. The government is now in the buisness of destroying the rights of it's citizens :(