RE: What Human Rights?
July 16, 2015 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 2:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's fine, we can say that human rights don't exist -today-...but what does that have to do with god, what does that have to do with the consistency of human rights as an idea, and what does that have to do with their possibility?
Nothing,.. nada...and bumpkiss. It -was- and remains a non-sequitur. My right to remain silent would have been ridiculous at almost any point in history, at any time as well...and yet it, exists. The idea of what that right entails -has- changed over time...and yet it exists. Sure, it's a legal right.....but your use of the term fiction is equivocation, and doesn't establish what you claimed in any case. Fiction also exists......
Nothing,.. nada...and bumpkiss. It -was- and remains a non-sequitur. My right to remain silent would have been ridiculous at almost any point in history, at any time as well...and yet it, exists. The idea of what that right entails -has- changed over time...and yet it exists. Sure, it's a legal right.....but your use of the term fiction is equivocation, and doesn't establish what you claimed in any case. Fiction also exists......
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