We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I feel kinda bad for you Humbabella. You have been methodically mis-informed as to the nature of liberty, the basis for common law, the meaning of the constitution, and the basic premise for the creation of these United States. You live in a world where you need governmental permission to be a human being and that’s just heartbreaking.
If you are arguing that people are born with the freedom to do or be whatever they damn well please and governments restrict those freedoms via laws, that is a very American perspective on things, and the way that the American constitution phrases things is a reflection of that ideal.
What you’ve done is create a position and then argue against your own created position. We aren’t born with the freedom to do whatever we damn well please and no one has argued that is the case. Also, it is not the American perspective (educated ones anyway). No one is suggesting that though it makes it easy to rebut if they were, huh?
If rights are things that you are entitled to and freedoms are things that you can do without interference, then nature grants you no rights or freedoms whatsoever
No one is saying that either… stop it with the straw man arguments. It’s boring.
