Quote Originally Posted by elganned View Post
There is no Creator. Whatever rights we have have been bestowed upon us by majority agreement that we should all have them.

The problem with that idea as your 'source of rights' is that if you are given rights only by virtue of majority agreement of other men;

Then all your 'rights' can similarly be taken away by a group of men.

But if you are endowed by a Creator with inalienable rights,

No mere group of men by their 'majority agreement' can take away your rights.

The most they would be able to do, is agree to deny you your inherent rights.

Let me ask you, is it your view that people held in slavery in the United States until 1865 were having their inherent right to liberty wrongfully denied them? Or is it your view that slavery was ok until 1865, when we just changed our minds?

And if by 'majority agreement' could we now just, change our minds again back again the other way?