They don't matter? If rights don't matter, why are murder,
Posted on: February 11, 2019 at 12:46:49 CT
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rape, kidnapping, theft all crimes punishable in our society?
All are examples of laws protecting natural rights.
Without an acknowledgement of rights, what would you base law upon?
Of course rights matter -they are the basis of all around you.
Our issue is now we have extraneous laws that, rather than protecting rights, LIMIT rights.
(drug laws are a great example here - they violate your property rights and if you aren't infringing on others, they aren't protecting others from direct infringement.)
The whole debate here is:
WHY SHOULD SOMETHING BE ILLEGAL, OR CRIMINAL?