Why Do Humans Have Rights?
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Because God gave us rights. Not a bunch of sick, corrupt, and twisted politicians.
...absolute ironclad truth....
God gave humans inalienable rights. We can’t alienate these rights from ourselves. Big gov exists to shit all over your God given rights.
God is God. There is no substitute. He is sovereign.
God loves us and gave us our rights when He created us.
Ask Him this question.
Do it.
https://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/
...wonderful addendum...
TLDR
Historically speaking. A bunch of smart philosopher dudes decided it was a good idea during their musings. And a bunch of other smart dudes agreed with the philosopher dudes and actually implemented the idea of inalienable, innate rights.
Theologically/Philosophically speaking. We’ve always had them and they were given to us by our God. It just took us awhile to remember we had them to begin with.
Do rights exist in nature?
There is no evidence that we have rights. It's an idea. It's a word. However, I don't think the idea really serves us. People are too dumbed down to understand rights, never mind "negative rights". So they come up with their own rights. They have a right to abortions, healthcare, being called a certain pronoun....etc. The idea can be manipulated however the elite decide, depending on the era and the goals of the elite at the time.
Elites created our governments. They are the one's who "gave us rights" and, as such, they can take them away due to "emergencies". It's all propaganda to keep us being good, little, pacified, proud, patriotic worker bees while they take 50% of our earnings, destroy the currency, have pretend elections....etc.
Having rights just makes you feel good. It soothes your mind. That's what voting is for. It opens the valve to let out a little steam so the elites don't have to quell an uprising. We never stopped being slaves to kings and rulers. Slavery just became a burden and it was easier for the elites if we each self-managed our own enslavement. It's less bloody for them.
"Give them bread and circuses and they'll never revolt" - Roman poet Juvenal
I can show you clear evidence that we have privileges.
What is a right as a definition. Because law and right is often mixed-up, let alone watered down by statute, legislation, rules, norms.
In essence, right comes from the word: straight, rect. this gives us: cor-rect or con-rect, e-rect, etc.
So, does a human have rights? Yes. The founders clearly saw that rights flow from life, which leads to freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Without freedom there is no life. Without choice, there is no freedom. Without the possibility of failure, there is no freedom.
Think of it, does it make any sense to live in this world if virtue has no value? What good is courage, if you live in a world where courage is no longer needed? What good is valor, if you live in a world where valor no longer is needed? What good is honor, if you live in a world where honor no longer is needed?
This brings us to our own lives and the world today. The experience of this world entices us to choose. Freedom is not the absence of risk, or failure, etc, but rather choosing to do the right thing, to pull yourself up by the strings of your shoes and continue your vision of happiness.
There is, however, one disclaimer. The right you live by, also is the right someone else lives by. And this is often forgotten. It produces all the negatives we see today. The choice to be right, in the literal and symbolic sense, is to each and everyone of us.
...compelling observation, nicely stated and framed...
Appreciate the words. I was a young die hard libertarian in my teens and I volunteered heavily for Ron Paul right in my home state of NH. Ron and Stefan Molyneux heavily influenced my early politics/philosophy.
Hans Hermann Hoppe was a very early Ancap influence on me. He wrote a brilliant book called "Democracy: The God That Failed". He has incredible work on private property and he is VERY politically incorrect. Fun.
I didn't pull the trigger on becoming an Ancap for years until I read No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority. This is the flag ship literature on pure Ancap thought, in my opinion and many others. It's an essay written by an 1800's abolitionist lawyer, Lysander Spooner, as if he's arguing a case in court. It's short, but it packs the punch of a Fat Man dropping into Nagasaki. Here's the audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWESql2dXoc
Ted Kaczynski went to Harvard and became a professor at Berkeley. He has an IQ of 167. You could describe him as a right-wing, primitivist Ancap. He makes a brilliant argument why it's technology that is fundamental to our enslavement and that we're looking at it all wrong. Technocracy and Transhumanism is the end game for the elite.
So the elite promoted Christianity to build up a strong, pacified, obedient, middle class with which to manifest an industrial revolution and swing us into the high tech, information age. Once you arrive here, humans have run their course, they've served their purpose. AI and Robotics have made humans obsolete. Humans are a liability now.
Depopulation has entered the chat.
...wonderful addendum...
...please message me that link and we will include it on Unleashed....
Because some of us will kill to defend them.
If you want a cooperative society, you have to agree on some fundamental rules.
...truth....
Joshua 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
...the Israelites never occupied all of the "Promised Lands"...
...and won't until Jesus returns...