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Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45
According to the Constitution we are endowed with rights by our creator, whoever you perceive that to be. According to Ayn Rand we have rights because we are human and it is our humanity that endows us with rights. I don't see a fundalmental difference between those two statements. Governments no more give us rights then they give us life, they either protect those rights with which we have been endowed or they take them away.
The real question is not who gives us rights, no human secular force gives us rights, we have them because we are alive. The real question is what rights do we really have.
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an equally ridiculous assertion. humans don't come with something called rights when they are born, this is a concept created by idiots who thought the idea might save their sorry asses from something down the line. But it won't. Thats why we have the 2nd amendment, so that we may insist upon the other amendments.