Trotskylvania wrote:New Conway wrote:
well, i would tell you that the government does not give people rights, only privileges, and that rights are something we are all born with that the government can only take away. I'll leave it at that.
Noted classic liberal Jeremy Bentham called this attitude "nonsense upon stilts".
There are no natural rights, unless you believe that there is a God on high who confers a superior law upon man that all are bound to.
So you can go play in your castle of make believe all you want, the rest of us are working with the understanding that rights are simply the privileges conferred on parties by either law or contract.
I'm atheist, and I am born with basic rights that no government can take away.