(May 15, 2015 at 5:43 pm)Freedom4me Wrote:(May 15, 2015 at 4:18 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: No, they are assigned through collective human experience. Don't like having a monarchy decide your religion for you? Let's move somewhere else and take the good things we learned from that government and apply some new ones.
The founders of the U.S. believed that black people were a lesser species, and decided that a black man counted as only 3/5 of a person. What does that say about your idea of 'intrinsic human value?'
The problem isn't in the idea that all human beings have certain inherent rights as human beings, in this case the problem was with those who wanted to oppress and enslave other human beings...merely on the basis of race. If there is no God, how would we have determined that race-based slavery was wrong?
Morality.
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