re: Does everyone deserve equal rights?

is this the kind of shite you spend your day thinking about?

If there is such a guarantee, then the bestower has done a piss-poor job of enforcing the guarantee.

Which rights, if any, has a Creator guaranteed?

Obviously, you're not a golfer.

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Well the definition of inalienable rights are rights that can't be given or taken away. Certainly if our rights derive from the government or man we can't have this guarantee? So only a Creator could guarantee these rights. So by contrast, telling someone that they have everlasting life that can be later taken away is similar.

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The point is that inalienable rights don't actually exist. They are a construct of a certain group of people at a certain time in history. There is no such thing as "inalienable rights".

Your eternal life analogy makes no sense.

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So you propose no govt.?

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I propose that the government should go about obtaining property in a legal way. If they want to build a government building than give property owners a rightful offer for buying the property and let them decide. The government should have the power just to take something and give some monetary payment for damages.

We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In order to protect these rights, all must have the rights to free speech, freedom of religion, right to bare arms, right to not have soldiers quartered in their homes without permission, right to no unreasonable searches and seizures of private property, right not to testify against yourself, right to a fair trial by a jury of your peers, right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishments, and the right to do whatever the heck you want as long as it doesn't violate anyone else's rights.

It all stems from the right to profit from your labors, to be able to enter into free enterprise and own property.

Voting is a privilege and responsibility. If you have earned it, you should not be denied the capacity to do so, but it must be earned and can be lost do to behaviors.

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Which rights, if any, has a Creator guaranteed?

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Well according to the writers of the Declaration of Independence, all that they innumerated.

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Just because man chooses to not honor the rights granted to us by the Creator doesn't nullify said rights.

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Why do you assume God has granted us inalienable rights just because the United States says he does?

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Looks like they aren't inalienable, then.

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I didn't write that they were, the founders did. And even if man takes them away, it doesn't undermine the concept that the founders viewed these rights as rights given from above and not capriciously granted by men.