| I agree with castille that we have no rights. All the rights we claim, are things we have come to believe are our rights, but unless you believe in God, who granted specific rights to believers, there are no rights. Even believers in God have no real rights but they believe they do based upon their belief in God.
All our rights come from mankind. Early on in small groups, it was the strongest or smartest of the bunch who made the rules and as civilization expanded, governments took over and issued rules and regulations that became our rights.
If you think about the things that are considered our rights, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that everything we have is always because of someone else.
G. Adams comes the closest to a right, if it can be called that. His idea of our right to fight, is the right of self-defense. I suppose this could be considered a "natural" right. It's more an instinct than a right. |