If i told you that there is no such thing as a GUARANTEED human right, would you agree with me? If you don't, could you name a guaranteed human right that is given to you at birth and can't be taken away?
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Would death qualify? We all get to do it. Guaranteed!
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"When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as immutable or inalienable human rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim to them." Helen Keller
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Life.. as long as you live forever.
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That would depend upon what you mean by "guaranteed" and who is doing the "guaranteeing." You can have rights that no one can take away without any particular protections. Someone can violate your rights, but it does not mean you have lost them. They are still yours; they have simply been violated.
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You surely have a right to die.
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Thought.
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Taxes
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By using the word Guaranteed in this instance, you are conditioning your rights on treatment by other humans, cultures and circumstance. I think "rights" is an idealist term, and that basic rights can extend from freedom to life, freedom of expression to things like freedom to receive healthcare. Rights can certainly be violated, and are all the time.
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You have a right to the thoughts in your own mind. Try and change what I am thinking right now. MINE!
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If you are speaking of man in the state of nature, then I agree. However, we do not live in the state of nature. We are born into a society and a place with government. Therefore, we are born with certain rights. Depending on where you live, those rights are different.
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I have the right to integrity of character. It is mine from the moment I am born until/unless I willfully surrender it. Otherwise it is mine until death.
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"The only thing a man truly owns is that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck." --Sufi proverb In a metaphysical sense, we have a right of self-determination. No matter what religious viewpoint you hold, there is always some action that can be taken toward or away whatever spiritual goal is real. That assumes you *have* a religious viewpoint. Atheists have fewer rights than the rest of us, I guess. From a purely humanistic perspective, there are no rights that cannot be lost. Even the right to thought can be revoked if a person enters a vegetative state.
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I believe that you are born with exactly ZERO rights. . During your life, the only rights you will have are those you are willing to fight for, defend, and uphold.
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Nothing is guarnteed.
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Freedom is a guaranteed human right. even if freedom is being legislated it is still up to the person to follow the legislation or not.
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Sorry, I stand by my answer. Integrity is an initial state, not a development. Even in the world of physics, loss of integrity (entropy) occurs only downstream from an initial state of organization (integrity). Under your hypothesis a person is born with nothing and then somehow "develops" integrity. At what point would that occur? Is there a magic number of thoughts required before a person is said to have developed integrity? Is there a requisite number of actions a person takes, and upon reaching this theoretical number he goes from a state of not having integrity to suddenly having it? Who determines what that number of thoughts or actions is, and who judges when it has been met? Your position is simply not supported; not in the world of psychology, biology/genetics, nor of physics. Integrity is an initial state. To postulate it as a development would be to turn the Second Law of Thermodynamics on its head.
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