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Starwynd
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I don’t agree. Ever heard of the term inalienable (or unalienable as some believe)rights?Don’t be silly. The right to life is not even in the same category as the right to vote. While the right to vote, which is not a natural right but one granted by a governing body, must be granted prudently, the right to life, which is a natural right, is universal for all human beings, period!
That come from their creator?
From wikipedia:
The term inalienable rights (or unalienable rights) refers to a theoretical set of individual human rights that by their nature cannot be taken away, violated, or transferred from one person to another. They are considered more fundamental than alienable rights, such as rights in a specific piece of property.
Inalienable (Individual) Rights are: natural rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They are the most fundamental set of human rights, natural means not-granted nor conditional. They are applicable only to humans, as the basic necessity of their survival.
“Inalienable” (or “unalienable”) is a term borrowed from English common law. Some property rights were alienable (they could be sold or granted) and some were inalienable (they could only be inherited according to fixed rule).
“Alienable” legally is something that can have a lien placed on it and thus that lien can be revoked, a-lien-able. Therefore, if something is in-a-lien-able condition that condition can be revoked. If something is un-a-lien-able “unalienable”, no lien can ever be placed on it in the first place.
The correct word is “unalienable”. The differences of these two words is vast and profound. Accepting the term inalienable literally means accepting the theory that rights are granted through the sufferance of some superior human power, rather than through their immanence in Nature (arising from the ordering of things, or through human nature), thus being self-evident, appertaining perfectly and equally to all people.
Full article:In modern usage, however, the terms “unalienable” and “inalienable” are often thought to be synonyms; and it is likely that reference to “inalienable” rights is actually a reference to the concept of “unalienable” rights. Though this is incorrect usage, it is increasingly common.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_rights
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
