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Poll
Question: Are our Rights inherent or subject to determination?
Option 1: Inherent votes: 1
Option 2: Subject to determination votes: 2
Title: Another Question about our Rights
Post by: Y on August 22, 2013, 03:03:11 PM
Inherent - not subject to determination.

Subject to Determination - rights determined by government, culture, etc..
Title: Re: Another Question about our Rights
Post by: Bo D on August 22, 2013, 03:50:48 PM
Interesting dilemma!

You may say your rights are inherent, but they weren't always that way. Someone had to decide somewhere along the way what is right and what is wrong within the framework of the existing society. Societies by their very nature tend to morph and evolve around the will of the people.

So what we may say are inherent rights were, at some point in our history, rights "determined by government, culture, etc.."
Title: Re: Another Question about our Rights
Post by: Y on August 26, 2013, 03:24:45 PM
To make this a little clearer.

I'm referring to human Rights in the philosophical and absolute sense, BUT this discussion will be moving into the application and real world sense.
Title: Re: Another Question about our Rights
Post by: Anne on September 05, 2013, 03:50:34 PM
As in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
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