RE: Death Penalty
March 29, 2009 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2009 at 11:21 pm by Meatball.)
(March 29, 2009 at 7:25 pm)padraic Wrote: WHY?Obviously. Who's arguing that we are naturally entitled to anything? If we were natually entitled to these things we wouldn't have much use for government. It's a way of a civilization saying, 'we value human life'. It's one of those things that makes us civilized...
Although I have those rights and value them, I have no sense of natural entitlement.
Quote:Even when protected by a constitution, there are no such things as "inalienable rights".Any government can and does ignore such rights as circumstances dictate.I thought I made that clear in the way that I worded my post. I'm not deluded into thinking the government can let me live forever because a constitution says so. I'm also not saying these things are abused and twisted for a number of reasons. Did you even read my post?
- Meatball