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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Absolute and inalienable rights cannot be taken away. I believe that most human rights are afforded this status. For example, the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment is inalienable. There is no moral justification for issuing such a punishment. Any government---any party whatsoever----who issues cruel and unusual punishment is violating a right. Under no circumstances should anyone be subject to such treatment. That is an inalienable right.
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cruel and unusual punishment happens EVERY SINGLE DAY! This is why your argument fails.
inalienable rights are absolute. that doesn't mean that the government won't infringe on them or revoke them unconstitutionally and still be either exonerated or rewarded for it.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
I'm still baffled by the notion that the founding fathers' input is at all relevant to anything. If an idea can't be supported without relying heavily on selective interpretation of the words of someone who has been dead for centuries, then perhaps the idea isn't all that compelling.
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this is an absolutely insane ideology. the founding of this nation rests on those words of people who died centuries ago. without them, there would be no USA. what would you have now?
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