Just like everybody who ever went to war does. When the US government dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I suppose they weren't ending the right to life, of hundreds of thousands of civilians, They were just ending their lives.Seth wrote: The term "unalienable" in the context of rights means that no person or government has the authority to declare one's fundamental unalienable rights out of existence. Hitler declared the Jews to be animals and therefore they had no rights and therefore they could be exterminated like rats, but his declaration that Jews did not have a right to life did not alienate the Jews right to life. He merely had the present ability to infringe on their rights, and the world went to war to stop him and vindicate the right to life enjoyed by every human being on the planet, which is universally recognized by all civilized people.
But funnily enough, once you've been vapourised, you no longer have a right to life.
So actually, they did alienate their right to life, by ending their lives. Just like Hitler did.
Yes they can. They can say all those things. Nothing can stop them.Seth wrote: No politician or elected official or national leader or despot or tyrant can simply say, "there is no right to life, and therefore I declare that I can kill anyone I want without violating their human rights." No person can (justly) say "I hereby declare that all property is the property of the state, and any property formerly belonging to individuals no longer belongs to them, but to the state." No leader can say "No person has the right to procreate and I will dole out permission to procreate as I see fit."
So it boils down to, can they JUSTLY say and do those things. So rights are simply what you think is just.
Can you provide any evidence that these rights exist, outside of your, or like-minded peoples heads?
