Platt, "endowed by their creator" do we have a "creator"?
while I do respect the ideal of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, you however seem not to, per your previous posts you seem to think that civil rights is "slouching toward Gomorrah" and per Bork, the reason why western civilisation is on the decline. how do you plead? ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 3:06:27 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Coerce me? How? On 9 Jun 2009 at 12:48, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > "Rights", including "property rights", are not "natural", they are > "intellectual". And as intellectual patterns they derive from the > culture from whence they came. Socially we craft civil governance in > accord with our intellectual patterns, to give them legitimacy and > authority. "Rights" derive from man, not the natural world. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." -- Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
