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Do human beings have the right to live?
in Politics
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From this point of view, you do have the right to live - but you did not have this right before you were born. At the moment of being granted a birth certificate, you gained this right, as well as all other constitutionally guaranteed rights. When you die, at the moment the death is officially registered, you will lose all rights as an individual (you may maintain certain rights as a legal entity, however - for example, in my case, I maintain the right for bodily autonomy, particularly the right to donate my organs for scientific research and for transplantation purposes, as per my contract with the state of Indiana).
There can be many other interpretations of the concept of human rights, however. In certain interpretations, a human being can have the right to live before being born, or even before being conceived (there have been governments requiring every woman to give birth in history).
So, the ultimate answer to your question is: it depends on how you define human rights.
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I believe this question is entirely predicated upon an individual's subjective assessment of the worth of a fetus, and thus, at what stage the rights are held. This question is not so much how one defines human rights, as rights are absolute, for if you have a right, it therefore cannot be superseded by another right. Unfortunately to take up this view of abortion (Fundamentally regarding rights) One is unable to assess whether abortion should be legal in the case of rape: For if you grant abortion as a form of compensation, the mothers right to choose supersedes the the fetus' right to live, while if you deny the mother the right to choose, the fetus' rights supersede that of the mothers.
It is a rather interesting topic with an uncertain and unreachable conclusion.
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"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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The Fetus hasn't done anything to deserve being held equally deserving of death as those people.
I am aware of the hypocrisy of saying 'being human makes you entitled to live' in itself but I can see what their rebuttal would be.
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Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood"
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They do. However, their right to live can infringe on other people's rights to live, and when they are the cause of such a situation, the resolution of the conflict may require their termination.
I see it the following way. If a mass shooter approaches a public space with a machine gun out, then the continuation of this shooter's life will mean the end of many other people's lives - so, at this point killing the shooter is necessary to defend other people's right to live.
However, if the shooter has been disarmed and apprehended, then he/she no longer threatens anyone's right to live, hence their own right to live is sacred. However much the society dislikes him/her, the society should not play the role of an executioner.
I like the sentiment I read from a Soviet political prisoner: "How you treat the people you hate the most is the best indicator of who you are". If the society executes people it hates, then it makes it a society of executioners, and it may only be a matter of time before you are the one walking towards a guillotine.
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