Is it normal i don't believe in rights?

I've been pondering this for a long time.....

What exactly is a right?...

Are they god given?...

Are they a representation of the many freedoms we uphold so highly?...

To be completely honest, I think it's a mediocre hoax; someone has pulled the wool over my eyes for far too long. How can we honestly have a right to do anything? How can we have the rights to anything?
If you claim to have a god given right to something, do think god would somehow intervene if that right was challenged? If our precious government gives us the right to do something, is a longstanding one? If they revoked it, would we still have rights to it?
Saying you have rights is like saying you'll live forever; hasn't happened and never will. I believe in privileges. Rights are something nobody can take away, which I have yet to find one. Were allowed to do things because someone allows us. We are under constant scrutiny of humans that enjoy playing so called "god"

We've never had anything and never will.

Thoughts?

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Comments ( 23 )
  • You have your "rights" IF you can take them.

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  • It's true. All rights are just opinion of flawed people who died ignominiously of disease and time.

    But to understand what rights should be given to people you first have to understand "What is the purpose of government?" and to me the purpose of government ultimately is to provide happiness for the people.

    If you look at all things from life, from computers, cars, coffee products, chairs, tables, even each other; it's all designed to serve and make our lives better. Nothing was ever created that wasn't meant to serve.

    So knowing government exists to create happiness for the people it then becomes necessary to give them the rights that will allow that to grow.

    However it's impossible to have both Freedom and Peace in any society. With the Freedom to go stupid, man will inevitably do so. You have to decide which principle (Freedom vs. Peace) is more important to life and which better accomplishes the aim of life: Happiness.

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  • I obey the commands of my God, and beyond that, I do whatever I please. I don't concern myself with "rights."

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    • wigsplitz

      I bet you would concern yourself with "rights" if you were infringed upon or if you were an accused imprisoned criminal facing trial.

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      • If I am being subjected to an unpleasant experience, I will make it stop, or escape. Any animal would do the same.

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        • mehmehmeh

          You say you follow god, and yet you call yourself a gunman.

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  • eroslives

    Your all pretty much crazy. Ultimately life is a constant parade of choices. Every person has the RIGHT to choose to do one thing or another. even if a person is persecuted for their choice it is still an exercise of their RIGHT to choose. Everyday all over the world people make choices that they know can have negative consequences, yet they make the choice anyway. Look at Libya, and Egypt.

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  • waakus

    If you don't believe in rights, you don't believe in morality. Rights are not necessarily defined via law. They are derivatives of a society's moral beliefs. Therefore, rejection of rights is rejection of ethics and morals. Good luck trying to convince yourself of that.

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  • Faceless

    Something has to govern us savages adequately and somewhat equally. Rights are just societal rules to maintain peace and order. With out this peace and order, this world would look like Afghanistan. And nobody wants this world looking like Afghanistan.

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  • howaminotmyself

    We do have rights, but there are many people who want to tell you what they should be. It all boils down to the simple things in life. Our basic needs. Things we all need to survive: food and shelter. I have the right to clean water and clean air. When people try to take this away from me, I will fight.

    And naturally made up rights get in the way. Like the right to do whatever you want on your land because you bought it and it's yours and bla bla bla. Who did you buy this land from? And just because you can do something, does not mean you should.

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    • wigsplitz

      I disagree, I don't think we have any rights whatsoever in nature. We don't even have a "right" to live. We have a will to live though, and that will plus the will to live comfortably, safely and securely is where we build our (human) ideas for what our rights should be.

      Rights are a completely human idea, even the most basic right people think they have which would be to live. BS. Your human brain tells you that you have a right to live but it's not true.

      Rights are as real as the government who gave them to you. When that changes or is gone, so go your rights.

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      • howaminotmyself

        I agree, "rights" are a human concept. But I also believe that the right to life exists for all life. Even destructive species like fungi, bacteria, and human. Humans tend to complicate things with our need to define and analyze everything. But the will to live is only an idea that humans can think about, not other life forms. We forget that what we think of as "rights" often take "rights" away from something else. But that is nature. It is all about balance. I have the right to live, but something else (not someone) has the right to take it away.

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        • wigsplitz

          I disagree, I don't believe anything has a "right" to live (in nature). I think there only exists an opportunity to live. With every opportunity, there is a disadvantage to some other life form. Since there's no rights in nature, then everything would have to be assumed equal, including humans. Nothing would have any right over anything else. It would make no difference if a human took your life or bacteria did. It wouldn't matter if you ate a bear or if a bear ate you.

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          • mehmehmeh

            We do have a right to live, just not in the general sense of the word

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  • wigsplitz

    Rights are something a society creates, there's tons of things that aren't "real" except for the fact that they exist temporarily in a society. It's like a modern dollar. Is it real? Kind of. It's real for as long as it's honored. But what's a dollar if there's no USA? Nothing. So, I'd say YES rights are real, however they are temporary and only exist in a society, and NEVER in nature.

    There's a lot of confusion on what's a right and what's a privelege as well. If you look at almost all the Constitutional "rights" you'll find almost all CAN be taken from you legally-some temporarily and some permanantly. So defining the difference between a privelege and a right is difficult. I think you're really only afforded just the most basic rights, many of which just apply to the courts and trials, and much more than that is a privelege.

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  • cosmic182

    Humans are pathetic as a whole, the world has been doomed since the day we evolved. "rights" is just an excuse for people to do what they want and get away with it, "I'm a farmer, I have the right to clear these trees and kill hundreds of animals to make more money". Fuck rights!!!!

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    • mehmehmeh

      "The day we evolved". Really?

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  • Mr-Time

    Meh human rights are overrated anyway, as long as i get to be the one taking them away.

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    • Must suck for you because you wont be the one to do it.

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  • rayst

    Privileges are for fascists and nazis, rights are for democracies. Read the universal declaration of human rights, adopted by the UN. It must be respected in all the United Nations.

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  • We should have rights not privelages. I have rights even if the goverment says I cant do a specific thing I still do it because in my mind what I see as my rights are my rights no group of people (The goverment) are going to say I have no rights.

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  • ck38

    I agree with you. A right is not something that is given to you it is something that cannot be taken away.
    However depending on the country we live in we are born into accepted standards that are supposed to protect us somewhat and give us opportunities that are governed by law and what society accepts as 'right'. For example...where I live, all children have the right to an education up to the age of 18 without having to pay for it. We have a right to free healthcare. We have a right to be protected from physical and sexual abuse. (as in there are laws to help protect individuals) I'm not saying obviously that it prevents it from happening. But it is what we can expect as an individual.

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  • it's_all_too_much

    I can see how one could say they are a hoax- I hear you on this. I think "rights" are things people claim to make themselves feel like they are in the right. But people also feel that they are in the right when they are taking away other's "rights". By SAYING I have a right to do something, I am giving myself that right. People do that all the time, governments do that all the time. I can't say anything for god given rights as I don't believe in any god. In a way it is kind of like a hoax. I wish I could think of a different word for it but I can't right now. Rights have no innate place in the way nature actually works, I think people just like to feel justified.

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