Regardless whether one engages in mutualism or coercion as a means of survival, to survive they must support their own life, gain property, use consciously generated action, etc., all of which exist as the means of mankind to achieve their ends.
Except that life, action, property–these are a necessity of reality and no person can live without them.
Is that what all the word-play games are about, attempting to come off as objective? lol. I don’t think it’s working like you want it to work. Anyone taking a stance is no longer objective, you’ve taken a values-based approach to the question at issue. What matters is whether there is truth behind your stance, and truth has an innate connection to reality. Thus, to be objective means to reflect reality as closely as possible.
The problem is ‘how to live (or how to remain alive).’ It is a problem forced upon everyone by reality itself. Even the man living by himself, outside mutualism, must value certain things to remain alive.
Then you’ve misunderstood the discussion or at least my points, as rights are ethical concepts written into the law, and derived from the nature of man, and regard action between men. Reality and nature need only give us the nature of man, from which are drawn legal rights. They are inalienable because nature has given them, because a man cannot exist without them.
One cannot allude to law and excise nature from its foundation!
Exactly, but you’ve essentially said that nature has no values, that nature has no written-law, and this is true, but immaterial to the discussion because values are only contingent to action and nature cannot act, and law is applies to people not nature.
Oh, and, finally you’ve agreed that nature is to be the epistemological foundation of law! Thanks for agreeing to epistemological absolutism ![]()
Objectively, a subjective argument should not deny that it is subjective!
It is not a subjective statement to say that man is alive, free, rational, and a property owner. This is man by nature, independent of anyone’s mind or thoughts. Thus, objective.
An absolute assertion for necessary rights is entirely based within subjective reasoning!
Unless it is, you know, based on logic, reason, and science–in which case it would be objective reasoning. One does not launch a rocket to the moon via subjective reasoning.
Stop mixing legalism with natural freedoms.
Murder is a legal term meaning to kill in violation of a written law (w.right).
Murder is a legal term that respresents an abstraction drawn, by reason, from the reality of the situation. The situation is that a man’s life has been taken from him, that which nature gave him he has been deprived. It is not the law that makes murder wrong, but the underlying reality. Thus ethics are objective.
Again, an unconscious person, whom has been born, receives constitutional protections!
Why then should birth have anything to do with protection from murder? You deny the underlying reality of a living human being whom is unborn. There is no ethical component to birth. A newborn is just as helpless 5 minutes before birth as it was 5 minutes after birth. It still cannot be murdered.
If one cannot accept that a wright exists because there is an entity capable of reprising a violation of given conditions, whence all killing is murder, then see theological reprisal.
No, see reality. It was not theology that gave a person life, it was reality itself.
Verily, an esoteric interpretation of newton’s third law of motion does not imply anything about the ethical or moral consequences of an action; no good deed goes unpunished and what comes around goes around.
Do you think justice a subjective concept too, or is that a property of reality that mankind discovered? By this I mean not that reality is just, but rather that justice was discoverable within reality, just as, say, mathematics is discoverable within reality. Mathematics is valid, true, objective, despite being an abstraction from reality. So too, I put it, is ethics and justice.