(February 2, 2012 at 3:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Actually, it does.
Remember there were religious groups who gleefully sacrificed infants to the 'gods.' People can rationalize damn near anything if you give them half a chance.
You are free to advocate for cannibalism. You are not free to kill people and eat them. That is because the constitution protects speech not conduct.
Now we are getting somewhere.
Yes, people can rationalize damn near everything. Which is why, in order to separate the rationalized from the truly rational, we need objective standards.
Right now, I'm not free to kill and eat anyone I want because of the constitutional "right to life" given to every human being. But is this right given arbitrarily or is there a rational basis?
If it is arbitrary, what, other that popular vote, would stop it from changing to the way it was in the past? When the right was given only to the religious people or only to men or only to whites?
If there is an objective reason, what is it? What objective reason is there that this right is given exclusively to human beings and not to any other animal or plant?
