Lee Corbin wrote:
> Adrian Tymes writes
> >> What do you mean "right"? Do you mean there should not be a legal right
> >> for that organism to come into being (I agree)? I don't know what else
> >> you could mean here.
> >
> > I mean the "basic" right or "natural" right which some view it as one
> > duty of the law to encode. For instance, the famous American right to
> > free speech (even if it has been poorly implemented by American law
> > recently, IMO).
>
> I've always had a lot of trouble with this. It seems to me that we have
> human beings, and many other parts of the physical universe. These
> "natural rights" appear from my vantage point to resemble God in the
> sense that many people talk about them but no one has any evidence
> that they exist.
Well...you'll note I cited an "American" right as example. These
"rights" are culture-specific, embodying the views of the culture.
(Though, these days in America, the trend seems to be increasingly
towards the only such "right" being the right to be a mindless
consumer, but that's another topic.)
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