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Originally Posted by Korimyr the Rat  Cattle die and kinsmen die, and surely one day you will die, too. The "right to life" is a ridiculous fiction-- contradicted by the whole of human history, every government that has ever existed, the basis of all governmental authority, and biology itself.
Entities only have those rights which they can enforce. Entities which are not strong enough, either individually or collectively, have no rights at all-- save those extended to them by those who fight on their behalf. |
People do die, this is true. But while we exist we have the right not to have our life prematurely snuffed out by another. While there are accidents, and all sorts of ways to die; no one has the right to purposefully take the life of another human without just cause (i.e. your own life being threatened). Rights always exist, it doesn't matter if they are upheld or acknowledged; rights being innate and inalienable can not be taken away. I will always have the right to life. That doesn't mean someone can't or won't infringe upon that right, but I always have it for as long as I draw breath. Force can be used to suppress rights, to infringe upon them; but nothing can take them away.