You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- If rights are based on choice rather than foundation, life lacks meaning.
- In plain terms
- Rights from choice make life meaningless.
- What can you take from it?
- Ground rights in a stable foundation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes life meaningful?
- Can rights be arbitrary?
Another view
Many find meaning even in socially constructed rights.
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