| Awful idea, and also wrong. The only two true rights are freedom and property. You are born with free will, and you can do whatever you want, unless someone actively prevents you from doing it. You are born with your body, which is yours, your original property, and is the source of all other property you may gain through your life by using your body (including your brain) as a tool to obtain it. Those two rights are yours by origin, you were born with them, society doesn't need to give them to you, all the other rights are just corollaries of those two, and whatever infringes these rights are not true rights. The right to life is derived from the respect others should have for your will to live, and the fact that they shouldn't damage your body (property). In your comment you are painfully confusing right with a warranty. There is no warranty for anything. Even in the midst of civilized society there is no warranty you'll live, what you do have is the warranty that society will do its best effort to punish those who killed you. |