We need to know how God gave these rights. On the eighth day of creation? On stone tablets? Which god?
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We internalize car deaths in a very similar way. Always an "accident" never negligent homicide.
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God-given rights, as George Carlin said, are completely made up out of thin air and what someone says when they have nothing intelligent to say.
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It has always been thus, Jeet. That's the entire meaning of "Give me liberty or give me death". In case you haven't noticed, EVERY decision government makes kills someone. You just aren't looking for the graveyard in the alternate cases.
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This doesn't at ALL mean that the individual deaths are not to be lamented, mourned, and loved. Or that the liberties fought for are always supreme over anything else. There's a discussion. But trading off rights with blood is the general founding philosophy of the country.
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This is an argument used for essentially every single "right" we have. There are always trade offs. One can argue with the merits of the argument without pretending like this doesn't apply to most freedoms everywhere.
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Really weird argument. He starts by claiming to do an amoral analysis, but he's weighing the value of lives against individual rights, both of which are inherently moral notions.
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The goatee on that guy is horrible...
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But only that “right”. They’re not too concerned about other people rights
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