The purpose of society should be to help maximize every individual's potential.
Sure as hell that's not the way nature works, and by attempting to fight the natural laws we're doomed to fail, try re-routing a river if you don't believe me :)
Can you derive "inherent rights" from this point of view? Maybe, but I haven't figured out how yet.
Rights have to be earned in any hierarchical(sp) group, except it seems societies formed by groups of humans where rights tend to come before responsabilities, No other natural group would put up with this sort of system, yet we, as humans have "evolved" to expect it this way, It's not natural, but hell neither is this artform we've developed of building metal boxes for us to travel even more rapidly to our one real certainty in this life...
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Date: 6/4/10 19:23 (UTC)Sure as hell that's not the way nature works, and by attempting to fight the natural laws we're doomed to fail, try re-routing a river if you don't believe me :)
Can you derive "inherent rights" from this point of view? Maybe, but I haven't figured out how yet.
Rights have to be earned in any hierarchical(sp) group, except it seems societies formed by groups of humans where rights tend to come before responsabilities, No other natural group would put up with this sort of system, yet we, as humans have "evolved" to expect it this way, It's not natural, but hell neither is this artform we've developed of building metal boxes for us to travel even more rapidly to our one real certainty in this life...