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Quote by: eXploiTeD, 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. |
Thats exactly what makes Rights nothing more that ideals
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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.[/quote] Agreed
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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.[/quote]
But the point is the goverment is the people, any what authority does the goverment have to decide the rights of others? we then get stuck in a cycle. Who has the right to give the goverment authority, who gave them the right to give the goverment authority? e.t.c.