Thread: From where do YOU think your human rights come and why?
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Old 03-14-2008, 10:41 AM
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This is something I rarely think about.
But it is funny you bring it up right after George Carlin's latest HBO special.

He concluded the show with the concept that there are no such things as rights, only privleges. Then gave numerous examples where rights were taken away. Rights we assumed or do assume we have all the time.

It really is just a matter of a person with a gun demonstrating to you that you have no rights.

Gun > rights

So I guess I believe that rights are a man made construct and are based on whatever man can agree upon at the time.

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