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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (20861)	7/3/2005 12:36:56 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You seem confused over the difference between "natural rights" - i.e. those mankind possesses, individually, in a state of nature - and absolute laws - as in science, where they can be proven and are inviolable. You appear to limit true rights to those that are "absolute". In society, little, if anything, is absolute and you won't find me arguing that anything is. It is you and only you that keeps insisting that rights must be absolute or else nonexistent. But I guess that would make perfect sense to someone who apparently believes man is the measure of all things and rights are what we make them. Never mind that this philosophy has been at the foundation of countless tyrannies and acts of inhumanity over history.