(July 17, 2015 at 1:52 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 1:48 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Is the right to life inherent? Then why does your god take it away?
Is the right to free speech inherent? Then why does your god damn people to Hell for blasphemy?
Is the freedom of conscience a human right? If not, why complain about imprisoning Christians in China (not that you have, but others do), and if so, how do you explain the damnation of nonbelievers?
Your god assigns no rights at all. Your god assigns privileges which he revokes on a whim, according to your own biblical history.
This idea that human rights devolve from the Judeo-Christian god is fatuous given that same god's repeated violation of those alleged rights.
There are no such things as objective rights. Rights are a social construct. Attempting to credit them to your god is simply an attempt to attach your superstition to a more firm and realistic base. Societies exist. Societies extend or deny rights insofar as its members agree to its social contract. A society which denies all rights wins few adherents (which is why the Berlin Wall was necessary, for instance) -- and a society which grants rights in an arbitrary fashion is inherently unstable (which is why America had the Civil War).
If you believe in natural rights, you'll need to show where, exactly, they exist in nature. Because in nature, and you and I both know this, we neither enjoy even the right to breathe.
Every breath is a gift, upon which you have no claim. And though we each read that last sentence through different lenses, you know exactly what I'm saying. Call it God, life, or nature, the world doesn't owe any one of us a goddamned thing.
I respect your views.
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