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originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: greencmp
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: greencmp
Your life is your right and nobody else's.
Can YOU keep you life?
No one may take your life away.
Yet, it happens all the time.
Unless they ask for it but, that is a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: greencmp
Unless they ask for it but, that is a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor.
What????? What does "a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor" even mean?
Are you blaming the person who was murdered for "giving up" their life?
originally posted by: greencmp
a reply to: Trachel
This is very disturbing.
Granted, I am (as usual) immediately politicizing this outlook.
If your life is not your own and is a "gift" from elsewhere. From whence does this gift come?
A creator? The state?
This position is in direct opposition to the spirit of our constitution and our civil society.
Your life is your right and nobody else's.
Nobody else's life is your right.
originally posted by: Trachel
originally posted by: greencmp
a reply to: Trachel
This is very disturbing.
Granted, I am (as usual) immediately politicizing this outlook.
If your life is not your own and is a "gift" from elsewhere. From whence does this gift come?
A creator? The state?
This position is in direct opposition to the spirit of our constitution and our civil society.
Your life is your right and nobody else's.
Nobody else's life is your right.
Your life is a gift from God. Enjoy it.
originally posted by: greencmp
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: greencmp
Unless they ask for it but, that is a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor.
What????? What does "a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor" even mean?
Are you blaming the person who was murdered for "giving up" their life?
I mean:
You have the right to your life and no one else's.
You have the right to defend your right.
When someone attempts to violate that right in another through physical aggression, they abdicate their own rights as a result and can be lawfully subdued by whatever means available.
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: greencmp
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: greencmp
Unless they ask for it but, that is a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor.
What????? What does "a voluntary abdication of rights by the aggressor" even mean?
Are you blaming the person who was murdered for "giving up" their life?
I mean:
You have the right to your life and no one else's.
You have the right to defend your right.
When someone attempts to violate that right in another through physical aggression, they abdicate their own rights as a result and can be lawfully subdued by whatever means available.
That's a pretty complicated and convoluted denial that life can be snuffed out extremely easily, by accident or on purpose. Lots of killers get away with murder and go on to live long luxurious lives.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: greencmp
So, a right is only a right if its defended?
You're insisting that only YOU have a right to your life, but then you give all kinds of exception on how one can lose that right.
If one can lose a right, it isn't a right, it's a privilege.
originally posted by: greencmp
originally posted by: Trachel
originally posted by: greencmp
a reply to: Trachel
This is very disturbing.
Granted, I am (as usual) immediately politicizing this outlook.
If your life is not your own and is a "gift" from elsewhere. From whence does this gift come?
A creator? The state?
This position is in direct opposition to the spirit of our constitution and our civil society.
Your life is your right and nobody else's.
Nobody else's life is your right.
Your life is a gift from God. Enjoy it.
Thank you, I believe you say it honestly and never doubted that.
I just had to point out the danger of the loss of autonomy that is presented when discussing holy or epiphanic selflessness.
Cheers!
If you attempt to use violence to deny me my rights, you voluntarily renounce your own rights.