[NutCrackerBoy]

Life and Freedom are gifts that have no contingent conditions, or purposes attached, except that one honor the rights of others.

How does one know what the rights of others consist of, without reference to some purpose?

[spunkets]

The purpose of the claims of rights and the moral code that protects them is to protect and maintain the very essence and nature of the being(s) that created them. The purpose for their existence and life does not have to be addressed, only the fact that each of them holds that their life and will are of immesurable value. That valuation must apply to the rest if there is to be any universal rights and moral code, regardless of what any of them hold is the purpose of their life. or any particular details of valuation.