NIKK....THIS is why we will never change the minds of a liberal. This is what a former professor posted on a group e-mail list. Read his brainwashed beliefs. Scary.
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Liberals believe that rights are social constructs, defended by force and open to change and improvement. Rights cannot be natural, like laws of nature, because nature enforces its laws absolutely, whereas rights are frequently broken. Rights cannot be inalienable, because governments frequently revoke rights. They cannot be God-given, because God originally blessed the rights of monarchy, genocide, polygamy, parental killing of disrespectful children, and other rights no one seriously defends today. Rights cannot be self-evident, because philosophers have been vigorously arguing over them for thousands of years.
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Self-evident rights: These are rights that are supposedly so obvious that their nature and origin do not need to be defended by analysis. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson declared that “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Even if true, these claims are extremely difficult to prove with logic and evidence, so Jefferson sidestepped this swamp by simply claiming these rights were self-evident.
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God-given rights also fail the test of the real world. Unfortunately, rights are not only highly contradictory among the world’s religions, but within the same religions over time. This makes it impossible to use religion as a source of rights. In Judeo-Christian cultures, for example, our modern, post-Enlightenment concept of rights is seldom found in the Bible. The story of Abraham leading Israel out of slavery from Egypt has long been celebrated as a triumph of the right to freedom. But the Israelites did not celebrate their freedom by creating a Jeffersonian constitutional republic based on individual rights. Instead, they first created a theocracy, then a monarchy, both of which are dictatorships. And these dictatorships enacted laws that many would decry today as human rights abuses. For example, the Torah permitted parents to kill their children if they disrespected them. Slavery was allowed, if regulated to prevent the more egregious abuses. Even so, it was legal for a master to beat slaves so severely that they could not get up for two days. Male prisoners of war and non-virgin females were often killed, and virgin females taken into sexual slavery. The New Testament offered no improved philosophy of individual rights; indeed, the apostle Paul commanded, “Slaves, obey your masters.” The changing nature of religious-based rights precludes them from being used as a guide for rights today.
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In fact, these quasi-religious explanations of rights are intellectually dishonest. The origin of rights is a messy and complex debate. What many conservatives and libertarians claim are inviolable rights are really their own narrow and potentially flawed opinions. But instead of proving their opinions logically, they attempt to avoid the unpleasantness of debate by using rhetorical tricks to elevate their opinions to infallible dogma, like claiming that their opinions come from God, are self-evident, or are unbreakable laws of nature.
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Boris Johnson signals he could block Huawei from building UK’s 5G network over national security fears after Trump said the Chinese tech giant is a ‘danger’ and called on the UK to ditch it
Satan is a liar and Democrats have believed every one of his lies.