There is one and only one basic or natural right: The right to existence.
Rights and the need to seek authority in order to justify them.
This is an unfinished thought in progressThe first is to define what is a Right? Something to which one has a just claim? There is a limitation to what must be considered when making claims about what is and what ought to be. Nowhere in American society is this more apparent than in claims to rights, especially with out an understanding as to what entitles any one or any thing to a right. Many believe they are some how endowed with natural rights that are self-evident and inalienable. They derive these beliefs from Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful language found in the American declaration of independence. While wondrously lyric and enchanting in their appeal to the moral and universal they overlook the reality of the universe, leading us to think our existence is imbued with meaning. Providing a moral cushion against the onslaught of time. Ignoring that we can squeeze but one singular right from all our knowledge and that is the right to exist.
Rights and the need to seek authority in order to justify them.
This is an unfinished thought in progressThe first is to define what is a Right? Something to which one has a just claim? There is a limitation to what must be considered when making claims about what is and what ought to be. Nowhere in American society is this more apparent than in claims to rights, especially with out an understanding as to what entitles any one or any thing to a right. Many believe they are some how endowed with natural rights that are self-evident and inalienable. They derive these beliefs from Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful language found in the American declaration of independence. While wondrously lyric and enchanting in their appeal to the moral and universal they overlook the reality of the universe, leading us to think our existence is imbued with meaning. Providing a moral cushion against the onslaught of time. Ignoring that we can squeeze but one singular right from all our knowledge and that is the right to exist.
That is, the right of everything to exist. This right of existence is not predicated on any value or dependent upon any government or guarantee or a delineator of sentience and self-awareness. Rather, this “right” is beyond any god or government to bestow, it is a power or liberty to which any person group or thing is justly entitled. The right to exist is not contingent upon government decrees, the laws of man or nature. It is that amoral piece inherent in the universe and necessary in understanding an existence devoid of meaning. This concept shuns the attributes of good and bad that human beings attach to all existence and by extension the uncaring universe. It relies upon a descriptive observation without appeal to sentiment.
The right to exist implies no responsibility. Its exercise is the mere act or non-act of the holder and the generation of good, evil right or wrong do not apply. Two metaphors derived from David Hume can be applied in visualizing this view. The first is “Hume’s Guillotine” where the “is” of the world, that reality or that which exists apart from the mind is separated from the ought or that which the mind would impose upon physical observable reality. What ever moves, or does not move, does so independently of judgmental values placed upon it. The ought are those judgmental values that the mind would apply and there fore lead to constructions that can only determine for whom or what the judgment has value not the reality of the thing in itself. This incorporates both being and substance as a real entity of existence. Value is applied such as the heavy metal mercury is bad for most living organisms to ingest but useful and good for an apparatus that measures temperature.
That is, the right of everything to exist. This right of existence is not predicated on any value or dependent upon any government or guarantee or a delineator of sentience and self-awareness. Rather, this “right” is beyond any god or government to bestow, it is a power or liberty to which any person group or thing is justly entitled. The right to exist is not contingent upon government decrees, the laws of man or nature. It is that amoral piece inherent in the universe and necessary in understanding an existence devoid of meaning. This concept shuns the attributes of good and bad that human beings attach to all existence and by extension the uncaring universe. It relies upon a descriptive observation without appeal to sentiment.
That is, the right of everything to exist. This right of existence is not predicated on any value or dependent upon any government or guarantee or a delineator of sentience and self-awareness. Rather, this “right” is beyond any god or government to bestow, it is a power or liberty to which any person group or thing is justly entitled. The right to exist is not contingent upon government decrees, the laws of man or nature. It is that amoral piece inherent in the universe and necessary in understanding an existence devoid of meaning. This concept shuns the attributes of good and bad that human beings attach to all existence and by extension the uncaring universe. It relies upon a descriptive observation without appeal to sentiment.
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