FREE PUSSY RIOT

Escrito por Unleashed, 08.04.2014 at 11:38

You have no Rights, the god delusion, and the supression of children's natural joy:

(shaking head)
Rights are a human construction, like laws.
According to International Law human beings have certain rights. These Rights are above (transcend) National Laws - they are superior to them, and existed before other laws were written down. Some point to a supernatural source for these rights, some do not - the source of these rights does not matter to the existence of these rights.

The construction and codification of human rights, separate from a religious bases, is a recent development in International Law.
Previous to this development, in International Law, human beings didn't have rights, but nations did.

Governments are responsible for enforcing these human rights, and many of these rights are the rights of people *against* governmental power.
Human rights abuses are not always punished by governments, and human rights are often violated by human beings, just as International Laws and local laws are also violated by both types of 'actors' (governments and people).

That these rights, and laws, are violated, doesn't mean that the rights and laws do not exist.
If a person exceeds the posted speed limit, breaking the law, can they claim because they violated the law, that the law doesn't *exist*?
Of course not.
Injustice is the word used to describe the unlawful deprivation of basic human rights.

That different governments, religions, and scholars disagree on the number, nature source and breadth of human rights also does not mean the rights do not exist.
Dawkins and Gould argue about the mechanism driving evolution, this does not mean either claims that evolution isn't the process by which species originate.
Einstein and Heisenberg argued about the deterministic vs. chaotic nature of the universe - this doesn't mean they disagreed about the existence of the universe.

Do you contend that human laws, governing the conduct of human beings, do not exist?

I would advise that you look to do your own research and thinking, rather than accept the Gospels According to Carlin and Molyneux, or perhaps you could try making the argument that "rights don't exist because (cite arguments and reasoning) ...."