(May 15, 2015 at 4:11 pm)Freedom4me Wrote:(May 15, 2015 at 3:15 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: We assign them.
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.
I guarantee that standard isn't your barbaric holy book.