Universal Rights Debate
This cluster discusses the philosophical nature of rights, emphasizing their inalienable and universal application to all people regardless of personal disagreements, moral judgments, or popularity, while criticizing selective denial or erosion of rights.
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A right is not a right if the desires of people I have never met abrogates it.
The whole concept of rights is to protect activity you don't agree with.Who are you to really say otherwise?
Just because something doesn’t require it doesn’t mean it’s a right.
huh? it's an inalienable right of us all. It either applies to all of us or it is meaningless.
Our rights can't be eroded, only infringed. :-)
I think you're confusing "has the right to" with "has the right to without criticism or consequence."
Just because they have the right to do it doesn't make it right.
I thought this was one of those negative rights, i.e. it doesn't have to be given to you, it just can't be taken from you.
You are confusing 'OK' with 'has the right'. I do believe people have such a right.
you don't have the right to make laws that violate other people's rights.