I'll have to reply to Dag's post because P.J.'s hasn't made it to my inbox.
Peter, what you are describing with "If you had the right to live you could not die", is the self-righteousness of the strongest. To the survivor it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and can be used as an excuse by the strong to wipe out weaker opponents. A "survival of the fittest" applied to humans is a terrible minefield. I plead you not to use such argumentation, because it resembles, in every aspect, the reasoning that Hitlers nazis used to hold their "arian" race above others. sincerely, Jostein On 12/28/06, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you aware that Micronesia might claim the right to bomb the west > to pieces because our pollution takes their whole country away if the > sea rises? > > DagT > > Den 28. des. 2006 kl. 17.42 skrev P. J. Alling: > > > No, I'd object violently, but good luck. > > > > You seem to have come on the flaw in most enumerations of rights and > > freedoms when carried to the extreme. > > > > Jostein Øksne wrote: > >> On 12/28/06, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> There is no right to live, there is a right to attempt to live. > >>> If you > >>> had the right to live you could not die. > >>> > >> > >> If my attempt to live requires (from my POV) exterminating you, you > >> wouldn't object?!? > >> > >> http://www.un.org/rights/ > >> > >> > >> Jostein > >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
