(June 28, 2014 at 3:59 pm)Luckie Wrote: I call them existential rights, but yeah. I have rights because I exist and so do you. You and I are equal. You do not have a right to kill me, and I don't have a right to kill you.
Well existential rights has clearly a philosophical connotation, but then again so do human rights, human rights theoretically come from Natural Law/Rights, not natural in a sense that it is related to natural phenomenons, but natural because we have them since we are born. Even if they are violated, they continue to exist, the state doesn't provide these rights, it just recognizes them
Can I ask what right or rights do you consider more important abstractly, hierarchically speaking? For me it is the right to live since without it you don't exist, therefore no more rights for you. Next to it perhaps justice or freedom/liberty.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
