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.