[strela]

"Our rights to life, liberty & property are self evident, natural, and inalienable".

Why?

An excellent question, actually. As Robert A. Heinlein once asked (much more eloquently than I ever could), where is the "right to life" of a sailor whose ship sinks under him in the middle of a storm-tossed ocean? The "right to life" is man's invention, not God's. Its silly even to assume that such a "right" exists at all, unless we accept the possibility that God occasionally falls asleep at the switch by not rescuing every stranded sailor or every cat that gets stuck in a tree.

[A.J.Armitage]

I see you've taken the mentality behind a "right" to health care, education, a job, or whatever and applied to the right to life. There's a difference between "Thou shalt not kill" and "MINE gimme gimme gimme I want it NOW!"

[Tribune7]

The "right to life" is man's invention, not God's.

That's the wrong perspective. Death is inevitible for everybody, after all.

The context in considering a "right to life" should be what prohibits an earthly power from willfully and arbitrarily taking the life of an individual.

[tpaine]

Our right to life has nothing to do with the chances of fate.

And your 'god, asleep at the switch' line is the silly nonsense, not that the right exists. - Every type of life fights to its death for existence, proving that the right is evident.

Self evident to those who reason.

-- 'Silly' to the roscoes & strela's, - those who are unreasonable.