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To: psychoknk
While I see many people arguing that rights are solely bestowed by their creator

Yeah, like these clowns.

9 posted on 02/12/2005 6:11:01 PM PST by mhx
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To: mhx
Yeah, like these clowns.

I'm not calling them clowns (them being the Founding Fathers, although that particularly document was penned by only one of them), but I don't agree with them, and I find them to be quite hypocritical. For instance, the Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal." Did this apply to the Founding Father's slaves? Or were they not men? Also, if people are granted with "unalienable Rights," how is it that they are so easily taken away?

Furthermore, that very same document backs up what I said: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men." To me, it is simply a matter of semantics to say that rights are given by a higher being and that a government simply secures them, or to say that a government bestows rights. The effect, in the end is the same. Thomas Reilly states that a government shouldn't take away rights; in your language, that would be the same as saying that a government shouldn't stop securing rights.

12 posted on 02/12/2005 6:45:38 PM PST by psychoknk
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