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To: RockinRight

The very concept of rights is founded in religion.

Since the enlightened person is freed from any superstitions about some "God," they are free from having to worry about "rights." Only raw power counts and humans are just meat puppets for the powerful.

Look at this puppet on a string...

http://pandachute.com/videos/leaked_saddam_being_hung_video


105 posted on 12/30/2006 5:13:42 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
The very concept of rights is founded in religion.

Historically that may be true. But rights are not logically dependent on religion in the least. Rights are dependent on the requirements of human nature. Humans require individual rights in order to thrive. And setting up a world where we can thrive is the whole point of having a system of morality in the first place.

Since the enlightened person is freed from any superstitions about some "God," they are free from having to worry about "rights." Only raw power counts and humans are just meat puppets for the powerful.

No, all we need to be moral is to understand the difference between short term and long term consequences of our actions. One needs to be able to think in terms of principles, and not just in ad-hoc, spur of the moment horizons. This has nothing to do with whether there's a supernatural father-figure out there with a supernatural switch ready to take us to the supernatural woodshed if we disobey whatever rules he happened to think up.

Look at this puppet on a string... http://pandachute.com/videos/leaked_saddam_being_hung_video

What - are you saying you think the execution of Saddam was a BAD thing??? That the Iraqis were treating Saddam like a meat puppet??? Please, do walk us through your logic here. I expect it will be... delightfully esoteric. ;-)

107 posted on 12/31/2006 1:07:45 AM PST by jennyp (Just a one-day suspension? That's bait & switch!)
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