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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (29662)1/31/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Rights are a concept. A human construct. As such I like them. As I told Edwarda there are rights I want. Of course rights normally impose duties, so they don't come free. If you have the right to your own property you have the duty not to take the property of others. But as I said before- all this talk of rights is nothing more than words. It isn't as if there are rights police to look out for you every minute. If your rights are violated YOU have to know they are, and then you have to go to court to take care of it- assuming your interpretation of your rights squares with precedent and statute- then your grievance is redressed. But it doesn't make the assault to your rights non-existent. So this concept of inalienable strikes me as a little absurd. People get killed every day in this country- their right to life is alienated. No precious words by anyone is going to stop a bullet. And criminals are put to death, after due process, their inalienable right to life is clearly not all that inalienable.
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