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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
the real tragedy is that you actually believe that bullshit. it's putting the cart before the horse. keep on believing that the government created your freedom, I could care less, especially if you're unwilling to believe the truth. That's what statism is about though.
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Was there such a thing as "natural law" in the middle ages? What would have happened to a serf who claimed he had the right to free speech and self-determination? Was the inalienable rights of man somewhere lurking in the wings waiting to get discovered by some enlightened eighteenth-century wig-wearers?
They declared independence from England. They also declared into existence inalienable rights. They
weren't a government yet when they did that. They founded a government upon
their declaration of intrinsic, inalienable rights. That was, in large part, the whole breakthrough in government that the founding of the United States represented.
To say "no, those rights were always there and really ARE inherent to humanity" actually does injustice to what the founders created.