Are There Innate Rights?

[Strike For The South]

Our culture has drilled it into me because, people, left to their own devices, strongly desire life, liberty, and happiness. The source of natural rights is people. Empathy is a natural emotion. We're social creatures.

Other cultures can allow for ritual sacrifice and slavery, but by and large those killed and enslaved don't desire to be. No one who writes the law would write it so that the color of their skin meant they had to be a slave.

You are arguing for oppression based on whoever is in power determining what is right. Not just arguing that this is reality--but that it is right. That's the distinction I was making. That was my analogy with the paraplegic--you are arguing that he has no legs because he can't us them, but clearly he still does.

Perhaps. But Does it mean profanity all when the paraplegic can't use the legs? I mean it's great to have but if they don't do anything does it matter if he has them or not.

I agree with you to an extant, I'm just arguing practice. Also should the people who can use there go around trying to help those who can't?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Perhaps. But Does it mean profanity all when the paraplegic can't use the legs? I mean it's great to have but if they don't do anything does it matter if he has them or not.

I agree with you to an extant, I'm just arguing practice. Also should the people who can use there go around trying to help those who can't?

Well, some learn to walk again through effort. I would say it does matter, very much.

For people may be property in practice, and under the law, but they still desire freedom in a way that other property does not. That is because of an innate difference between a person and, say, a cow or a building. That innate difference is the right to liberty.