RE: Nature's Laws
May 15, 2015 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 4:20 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 15, 2015 at 4:11 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: But are individual rights assigned arbitrarily? If that is how it works, then how and why would the founders of our nation (or any nation) go about deciding on the way to form a "more just" society for all the citizens in the country? There has to be some standard for determining what is more/less just before we can "assign" individual rights. The founders of the U.S. believed that our basic individual rights are intrinsic to our humanity. No one can legitimately deprive us our rights without due process.
No, it is not arbitrary. The standard is the physical reality we all share.
We all have (more or less) the same physical bodies, inhabiting the same physical universe. From this, we can extrapolate that what I need for my well being is almost assuredly the same things as the vast majority of humanity also needs.
Life is preferable to death, health is preferable to disease, freedom is preferable to slavery, comfort is preferable to pain, etc.
It doesn't take much to figure out that, since I do not want to live in a society that is rampant with murder, theft, torture, rape, etc, it is best to create laws to prevent them, and to live by them myself.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
