RIGHTS

Very recently, as in just a few moments ago, I ran into a comment here on the internets unabashedly stating that rights were derived from laws and that none of them were inalienable. This blows my mind. Absolutely and completely. Like the first time I heard a Stooges record. I’m not even sure if I’m typing the right things here because my fingers have gone numb from shock. The implications are astounding. The implications are staggering. Imagine holding to a notion that there would be nothing wrong with the institution of slavery so long as there was no 13th Amendment to prohibit it. Imagine holding to a view that the extermination of six million Jews was acceptable because German law had not properly established their right to exist. Imagine not being able to betray an imagining of this because it had been deemed  thought crime.

Now it must be said that the fellow believing rights to be privileges afforded through the law seemed to be a nice enough sort of person. No doubt he has no malicious intent with his beliefs and probably wants a world free from oppression, depression, hunger, global warming, global cooling, injustice, tyrants, despots, crop circles, New Coke, Windows Vista and blah blah blah . . . but there is only one conclusion for a people who have come to serve at the pleasure of the state. And that conclusion is the end as they are no longer people, but rather have become the property of their lawgivers