RE: What Human Rights?
August 29, 2015 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2015 at 5:03 pm by GenericAthiest.)
(July 16, 2015 at 6:48 am)Nestor Wrote: Do you believe in human rights? What do you include in these? What is it that gives anyone a right?
Remember, I DON'T mean legal rights. I mean something more, in nature, whatever that is, that entitles (is that the word I want?) a person to enjoy certain benefits, and that as a right it is others' duty not to impose or negate that right.
If you do not believe a person has anything like a natural, universal right, then how does that affect your beliefs/actions IRL circumstances when the issue of so-called violations (of life, liberty, property, etc.) comes up?
If you humans had "rights" then they wouldn't be able to take them away. They aren't rights, they are just privileges.
Nobody in nature has any rights. The lion doesn't have any right to getting any food for the night, a gazelle doesn't have any rights to not getting eating that night. People like to come up with "universal laws" to protect themselves, but they don't exist.