[Cultural Jihad]

Regardless, people have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[TheAngryClam]

Not really.

What right to life does an executed man have? Or what about a drowning man? Will the ocean hear his cries that he has a right to live?

Liberty is never an inborn right- it always comes with a price, usually a big one. The Founders knew that.

And the right to "pursue happiness" is really empty anyway- you can pursue happiness at any time, under any circumstances- it doesn't mean that you'll catch it.

Most of this cribbed from Heinlein, but very much true.