(July 16, 2015 at 6:48 am)Nestor Wrote: Do you believe in human rights? What do you include in these? What is it that gives anyone a right?
Remember, I DON'T mean legal rights. I mean something more, in nature, whatever that is, that entitles (is that the word I want?) a person to enjoy certain benefits, and that as a right it is others' duty not to impose or negate that right.
If you do not believe a person has anything like a natural, universal right, then how does that affect your beliefs/actions IRL circumstances when the issue of so-called violations (of life, liberty, property, etc.) comes up?
The short answer is no.
BUT we can be better than nature, we can ensure that treating others well is enshrined in law.
By this we show ourselves to be superior to medieval societies who only treated others as their horrid dogma dictated.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.