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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (766288)1/28/2014 2:56:23 PM
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It depends on your perspective. You don’t like the term “Self Evident,” you don’t like religion either. The first term Jefferson used was “Sacred,” Ben Franklin convinced him to tweek that religious sounding term so the statement wouldn’t be attacked on religious grounds. We all now hold Human Rights to be born in Natural Rights. But how do we know these are Natural Rights? Well, because there is universal agreement that this is obvious (Self Evident).

The role of law is to protect Human Rights to the extent it is able. As you know, governmental systems are far from adequate in this regard. Even where the doctrinal code is fairly stated, due to the corruption of human beings, justice is never going to be applied satisfactorily.

In their hearts people have always known this. The first attempt to codify human rights was by Cyrus who freed slaves and declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and he established racial equality in 539 BC after conquering Babylon. Cyrus was the King of Persia at the time. (See also: The Cyrus Cylinder)

Human rights are perfect (as an innate condition of Humanity). The laws designed to protect them are simply the best we can do under the circumstances. The governments held responsible for protecting them are probably not much better than what has been in place throughout history. Sometimes across time and circumstance we’ve done better, and sometimes worse.
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