RE: Understanding/Sympathizing/forbearing people
February 9, 2012 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2012 at 3:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Essentially, we would all have "innate rights" to whatever we all communally desire? An example being "right to life". Because we all desire to live it should be a universal and innate right? Well, what should be and what is are often different things. What is and what ought to be, you know the narrative.
I agree with you btw, just trying to be honest about my own motivations for "rights" and my lack of solid justification beyond "because we say so/because we want them"..which, honestly, is perfectly okay (we justify things like that all the time), but doesn't hold up very well when arguing for something objective.
Is violence (even, dare I say it, senseless violence) not innate to human nature? Should we not have a right to violence, for example? I think you might mean that we should have a right to the things you have assigned a positive value-judgement too....
(sorry for quick edits and broken responses, evil children give me a few seconds here a few there.)
I agree with you btw, just trying to be honest about my own motivations for "rights" and my lack of solid justification beyond "because we say so/because we want them"..which, honestly, is perfectly okay (we justify things like that all the time), but doesn't hold up very well when arguing for something objective.
Is violence (even, dare I say it, senseless violence) not innate to human nature? Should we not have a right to violence, for example? I think you might mean that we should have a right to the things you have assigned a positive value-judgement too....
(sorry for quick edits and broken responses, evil children give me a few seconds here a few there.)
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