RE: What Human Rights?
July 16, 2015 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(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?
Personally, being a Christian, I believe the "rights" you are talking about are inherent rights assigned to us by God.
If I did not believe these rights were assigned to us by someone higher, then I would not believe they were inherent human rights.
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