| Thats the most destructive thinking possible. Its absolute bullshit to believe that rights are 'inherent.' Rights do not derive from God or Nature, but from Humanity.
At the same time, our ability to think and reason doesn't endow us with any more rights than, say, a lion - or, for that matter, any one of a lions prey. So it isn't our nature that guarantees rights.
So it isn't some sort of higher understanding - from God or humans or otherwise - that guarantees rights. Would you like to know what it is? Government. There's no magical moral order that dictates what's right - rights derive from human knowledge and understanding; therefore, they can only be enforced through human knowledge and understanding. |