Blues Man
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God given rights. Do you really have any?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
When a right is given to us by governments, they assume and have a duty to ensure that they are never taken from us. If governments do not accept and do this enforcement duty, then citizens have a corrupted government.
If a right is given to a soul, by god, he would have a duty to ensure that they are never taken from us. The fact that they often are, indicates that he is shirking his duty.
To me, rights are like laws, completely useless and worthless unless they can be enforced by a given power when they are breached.
Do you have any real god given rights, or are god given rights just a feel-good lie that we tell ourselves we have so as to ignore that we have none?
Regards
DL
It's a philosophical view point.
I rather prefer to say that all people are born with inherent rights not "god given".
If you deny that all humans are in possession of rights simply because they are alive it becomes easier to condone slavery, human trafficking, murder, genocide etc.
We know that government cannot be trusted to decide what rights people do or don't have.