View Single Post Old July 27, 2012, 09:36 AM   #128 Brian
Pfleuger Join Date: June 25, 2008 Location: Central, Southern
NY, USA Posts: 17,148 The idea that rights exist because men
(and who would these men be, besides "government"?) put them on
paper is an oxymoron.  If they came from men, they're not
"rights", they're privileges. They could have not given them,
they weren't "there" before, and they can be gone again.  If the
rights are not God given, they are a figment of imagination. A
convenient construct whose only purpose is to dictate an orderly
society at the whim of the men who gave the rights and who can
just as well take them back.  There is, after all, no real right
there at all, if they are constructs of men written on paper. It
is not wrong to take them away. It can't be wrong, because there
is no wrong, because wrong would be defined by whomever has the
power to define it.  If the right to live free, to defend
oneself, to pursue happiness, are simply constructs of the
powerful, who is to deny th