🚀 go-pugleaf

"John Roberts" <jroberts@nosp.ionet.net> wrote:

>TarlaStar wrote in message <363b7152.34456319@enews.newsguy.com>...
>
>>>>Amazing how Right-Wing White Christian Republikans (or anyone)
>>>>can be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty!
>>>
>>>Not that amazing, really.  Unborn children haven't done anything to
>>>*deserve* the death penalty.
>>
>>They haven't done anything to earn rights, either.
>
>
>If it has to be "earned" it's not a right, it's a privilege.
>
>I'd also mention "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
>created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
>inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
>happiness.", but that would be digressing from the point of the discussion.

No it wouldn't. You presume rights are given by a Creator. They are
not. They are acceeded by other human beings. If we were born with
rights, all children would be allowed to vote etc. They are not.
Rights in a society are earned. You only have the right to life as
long as another human being doesn't kill you. God doesn't step in and
stop the murderer to protect your rights.
*****
"Dammit, Jeb, I'm as Amish as the next fellow, but if we don't
take out that sub, there'll be no Pennsylvania to go home TO!"

--my son, Eric
*****