Anyone want to give it a try?
Heck, throw in morality if you feel like it.
2007-07-13 14:17:32 · 5 answers · asked by 29 characters to work with...... 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Rachel
Sorry Humanists simply skip around the need to logically attempt to back their beliefs.
2007-07-14 11:09:25 · update #1
KDdid
Good try playing devil's advocate, but the details of your statement leave holes for reletavism.
2007-07-14 11:10:44 · update #2
Rights are an artificial construct of humans that help to alleviate our fears. Rights, further, are a system that we have designed to address our sense of anger and guilt.
You have legal rights under the law. You can claim those rights and seek out punishments and retribution in a legal manner.
You have no other rights in my view.
No one has the right to life. this is an artificial construct that addresses our fear of being killed. Every person who has been killed has had their life taken. Having "rights" did not prevent this from happening. it only provided a way to punish the guilty party.
2007-07-13 14:41:31 · answer #1 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll take a stab here, though I'll state for the record I'm a Christian, not an athiest.
An athiest would have to go the route of practicality in order to defend the idea of rights and morality, and probably a reductio ad absurdum would work best. Like this...if people didn't have rights and there was not such thing as morality, society would devolve into an unpredictability which would cause the whole organized structure known as society to crumbled into an unorganized mess resulting in chaos and mayhem which would be bad for nearly everybody. To avoid such, we need to band together to construct the ideas of rights and morality so that we all--the masses--may enjoy a more peaceable life.
Okay, it's not much, but it's been a long day & I'm tired so it's all I got.
2007-07-13 14:47:31 · answer #2 · answered by KDdid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Question was poorly worded.
The Constitution gives citizens the right of religious freedom. This right applies to Atheist not to exercise this right and furthermore to reject any and all religions.
2007-07-13 14:33:36 · answer #3 · answered by Future 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not an atheist, but i would think our rights as human beings, as living beings, are based on the fact that we human, not on what religion we believe or dont believe,
of course, whatever rights we have decided we have, are a made-up thing, created by us, we are not born with instructions nor a warranty or guarantee
2007-07-13 14:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
atheists believe that there isn't a "giant invisible sky-dwelling being that demands to be loved and adored unconditionally"(-George Carlin)
what does that have to do with morality and rights?
look up Humanism, please
2007-07-13 15:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by Rachel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋