C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
I find it pretty funny that so many people believe their rights are innate. Seriously? People living under democracy may believe that, but not everyone lives under democratic rule. Even in a democracy, society determines what are rights and what are not. Now it could be argued that you have a couple of innate rights, and those would be to pay your taxes and to die. Everything else is negotiable.
Respectfully disagree.
Consider the fact that the United States is not a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic, where citizens are subject to the rule of law, not man as men are incapable of ruling justly.
And the rule of law is predicated on the fact that our rights are indeed inalienable, subject to no vote or referendum. The majority of a given jurisdiction does not have the authority to determine who will or will not have his inalienable rights, and ones rights are not determined solely as a consequence of his jurisdiction of residence.
That other countries or nations refuse to acknowledge their citizens inalienable rights in no way means those rights dont exist. In fact, here in the United States, for example, there are those who refuse the acknowledge the equal protection rights of same-sex couples to marry obviously same-sex couples possess that right, where those who seek to deny same-sex couples their equal protection rights dont have the authority to do so.